Alan J. Flavell wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, JotM wrote:
....
But with a free dial-up account I can't really control the server
of my provider.
I'll reserve judgment on that. Many of the folks I've advised before
in that situation had never actually tried creating a .htaccess file,
and were surprised (in some cases their service provider was also
surprised, which says something about service providers) to find that
it worked.
Well Alan,
I tried placing a .htaccess file in "my" root as well as in "my" www
folder, but:
First I made a file named "htaccess" containing a line saying "AddType
application/xml+xhtml .xhtml";
FTP'ed it to the locations mentioned;
tried to rename it to ".htaccess" and got an error-message stating
"550 Prohibited file name: .htaccess".
I am a mechanical guy, you know, nuts and bolts. I am lost here.
As for trying to create XHTML1.1:
The last time I looked into HTML (into the code I mean; I have produced
IE readable pages at work right from MS Word, please don't flame me for
that) I used notepad to create pages that I browsed with mozaic. So you
could say I missed some years. As I considdered it could be fun to code
some pages again, I bought a Visual Quickstart Guide on HTML and started
of. There's nothing in there about the type served for XHTML. (there is
a similar example to what I tried and described above for preparing a
server to serve wml, but as said, I get stuck on that path)
Learning as I am doing. And perhaps, it would be wiser to switch to
HTML4. If that's what I pick up doing and reading, I will.
Regards,
Jaap
