General Support: Htaccess file and suggestion

Hi everyone,

My apologies if this question has been asked before:

What are the correct permissions for a .htaccess file, because Plogger didn't insert its own "search engine friendly URLs" code?

I now changed it from 705 to 777 (is this safe?) , but as stated before nothing was altered in the .htaccess file. This resulted in ugly 404 error pages. After a search on the forum I discovered the following code:

# BEGIN Plogger

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /gallery
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [S=2]
RewriteRule feed/$ plog-rss.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php?path=%{REQUEST_URI} [L]
</IfModule>
# END Plogger

So I decided to manually put this into the .htaccess file (in the Plogger installation directory, not at the server root) and now it all works :). However, for later versions, could you implement a manual method for search engine friendly URLs (cruft-free URLs) in Plogger? This would be really helpful for users of servers that apparently do not allow Plogger to change the .htaccess file (even with Chmod 777).

Thanks in advance