Mac Tales

Apache htaccess files have many uses to the webmaster, but by default this file is not visible in the OS X finder. This is because OS X treats files that begin with a dot (like htaccess) as system files.

There is a simple way to change this behavior so that you can see, and edit htaccess files on mac OS X.

TinkerTool is a great little application that allows you to configure many many features of OS X that aren’t otherwise available through a GUI.

TinkerTool allows you to enable/disable the display of hidden and system files in the finder. Enabling this allows us to see and work with Apache htaccess files.

It is likely that you will want to reverse this change once you have finished working with htaccess, as the setting does add clutter to the finder and to the OS X desktop.