# Public/.htaccess missing from Rails 2.1?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-htaccess-missing-from-rails-2-1/140435>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 13, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-htaccess-missing-from-rails-2-1/140435 "2008-06-13T22:28:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dean)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-htaccess-missing-from-rails-2-1/140435/1 "2008-06-13T22:28:36Z")

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I just started with rails and have been using rails 2.0.2 up until  
today. I did a gem install of Rails 2.1 and I noticed that when I  
created a new project with: rails -d mysql projectname, I don’t have  
a .htaccess file any longer to tell Apache to execute the fcgi or cgi  
scripts… Is this on purpose or did I do something wrong?

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**Author:** ![dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dean)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-htaccess-missing-from-rails-2-1/140435/2 "2008-06-14T15:26:00Z")

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Has nobody seen this except for me?

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**Author:** ![dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@dean](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dean)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/public-htaccess-missing-from-rails-2-1/140435/3 "2008-06-14T16:26:41Z")

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This is by design, it’s in the changelog for 2.1. There is an  
example .htaccess in the README.

best.  
Mike