I do not have shell access. I am doing everything with ftp.

Here's where I show my utter ignorance....

by "create an emty file called .htaccess" do you mean an empty text file? Does it matter as long as there is something call .htaccess to be re-written over? So, for example, could I create a ...

Thanks...

I don't have shell access to the server. I am using cute ftp to change the permissions.

I also don't seem to have the .htaccess file in my directory.

On a lark, I changed the permissions of everything in my aitd directory to 777. This didn't help.
:wink:

Someone said earlier that ...

Thanks for the clarification...

But now I changed the permissions of the aitd directory to 777, and am still getting the error.

Is there something else I need to do?

Thank you!!

Ok, I solved that. It was just a matter of me being exhausted and putting everything in the wrong place. :oops:

But now I am getting this:
To check your local webserver installation, serendipity needs to be able to write the file ".htaccess". This was not possible because of permission errors ...