htaccess

[macy]

Can anyone here explain to me what is the idea of htaccess? I just encountered it in my host and was able to manage editing it myself but I don't have the idea what's its use for.

[Stealer]

I don't personally know a whole lot about this at all. So I will only give you a great place to find information that you are looking for.

www.boardtracker.com this is where you want to go search a word and it will give you every forum post online that is linked to it. Will give you a good ground to know what you want to know. :)

[Neoakenz]

There is really no use for the .htaccess file, its usually made for security reasons, but most hosting provides disallow .htaccess files. And you get a 500 internal error, I suggest to just delete it because there is really no use of it, it won't affect you in anyway.

[Domain News]

.htaccess file is very important if you intend to handle your own redirects or mod rewrite features on your site..... It is a criticle file in some cases.....

[Neoakenz]

Why? I don't get it. I had the .htaccess problem before and google it up, the people on the internet said to just delete it because it was a useless file. I guess in my situation it was useless. But if I don't delete the file how would I go around the problem?

[Fishnagles]

What they are/How to use them / When (not) to use .htaccess files
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html

.htaccess tips and tricks..
http://corz.org/serv/tricks/htaccess2.php

[izmitli4141]

htaccess is a file which setups writing access.i have a blog and if i erase the htaccss file my links wont be like this www.myblog.com/the_topic/
will be like this www.myblog.com/id=1?

[_123_]

.htaccess can be used for many things, you can google for ".htaccess tutorials"
one of the most popular features of .htaccess is setting up password protection for your website