Changing permalinks in wordpress to postname locally on my mac

CMS & WordPress
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Hi guys. I am trying to change my wordpress permalinks locally on my mac to /%postname%/ .

I use terminal to show hidden files : defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

killall Finder

but how the hell do I create a .htaccess file? Do I create it through TextEdit?

All links work fine using default permalinks but when I change the radio button to postname I get a error 404. Have created a static page for my site and the homepage displays fine but the other links get the 404 error.

Need to create htaccess file and enter the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

And that will hopefully work

Can someone help please.

Regards

Darren

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Maybe try with the plugin then: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-htaccess-control/