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I've installed this and all works fine, with the only problem being I have to set .htaccess (which is in my root) to 666.
Can anyone suggest a possible solution to this? - or if 666 is not a good option.
Thanks
.htaccess needs to be readable by the userid that runs your webserver daemon. I suspect the file is owned by your own userid (or by root), and thus the webserver daemon can't read it unless you open "other" to read.
chown the file to your webserver uid:gid (usually 'apache' or 'httpd') and chmod the file to 600. It ought to work, but this is assuming you own the webserver...
But if you're hosted then this won't work. chmod the file to 644 and leave it at that. Do NOT make it world-writeable (as 666 would be).