The server you are describing I have never seen... even in the 90s. I have never seen a server where .htaccess was disabled AND you couldn&#x27;t go one level up from www&#x2F;public_html&#x2F;htdocs&#x2F;etc.<p>So now curiosity has gotten the best of me... is this a private lan or something? The only thing I can think of it is one of those situations where a University gives you a website but it is really really locked down.<p>Also, try starting it with a dot (&quot;.mytest.html&quot;) as a lot of servers prevent hosting up files that start with a dot.