QUOTE(lawny @ Mar 10 2009, 04:18 PM)

go to the server menu in filezilla and choose "force showing hidden files" they should show but i don't think .htaccess is working i'm not sure
ok i got that thanks, and why doesn't my modrewrite work? i am trying to make the root load up a subdirectory as the root. here's an example htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} website.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !subdirectory/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdirectory/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
tell me if i am doing something wrong here?