Chad Von Lind

Thanks!

This was very helpful for me!

Yeah thanks, this is the only location for this setting that I know of. I’ve always fired up another ftp client to access a .htaccess file.

Hi mate,

I was full of hope when I found your post, but the view item in the file menu does not exists in cs4. Sad but, it made me decide to sort this once and for all.

In the end, I found it, it’s only a simple registry setting change :

http://www.alicesbiscuit.com/dreamweaver-how-to-view-hidden-files-and-htaccess.html

Why it’s not accessible easily in DW is beyond me though.

Take care

Thanks. Needed to access the .htaccess file and couldn’t find how to show the hidden files searching dreamweaver help.

I actually did find a way to do this from within CS4, so you don’t have to modify the registry. (Although that will still work.) It’s not intuitive at all, hidden to the point I almost never noticed it.

The “Files” tab will be in a “tab group” that has a very tiny button at its far right. It looks like a small downward arrow next to 4 lines. If you click this, a context menu will appear. Choose View -> Show Hidden Files.

Good luck!

Thank you! The solution for me (Dreamweaver CS4) was to collapse my expanded local/remote file view. Only then did I have access to the options context menu that Funka describes in the above post.

This was extremly useful. Thank you very much

It does exist in CS4, but you have to collaps the file viewer to a palette in order to access the dropdown menu – very clever from Macromedia/Adobe!

Thank you!! simple, but really useful.

oh man .. tahnks so much for this .. this has been bugging me for years!! very handy tip to know

wow

this one was very usefull

thanks

Ed

This is very useful, thanks so much! I wish we could tell dreamweaver that it can open .htaccess. The workaround is to go to open-with.

Hi Tyler, You can have Dreamweaver open .htaccess files by default if you go to EDIT > Preferences. In that first line labeled “Open in code view” type in .htaccess in the end of that list. Add any other files types that you’d like as well.

Whoops. That should be Edit > Preferences > File Types/Editors.

Brilliant.
You sir, are a genius!

Thanks, i’ve always have to use another ftp program for .htaccess files. I didn’t know this was possible. You’re the best!

I have CS4 and found it without a problem.

This is a post from 2009, still helping on 2011, in Dreamweaver CS5.

thanks for the help!