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Five New User Questions

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

New users purchase Associate-O-Matic all the time, and often the same questions pop up. Some of these have been covered before in this blog, but to save time and frustration, I’ll recover them here, along with a few that haven’t been mentioned before. So in no real order…

1. How do I make my shop open with www.mysite.com instead of www.mysite.com/shop.php?

If you don’t have one, create an .htaccess file in the root directory (the same area where the shop.php and admin.php files are) of your web space. On some webhosts you have to create it as a text file (like htaccess.txt), then change the filename to .htaccess (just as shown).

Into the file, put this as the top line