.htaccess is a small text file that's located either directly in a domain folder or inside a subfolder to guide the web server how it must handle requests when a website or a folder that's part of it is accessed. Numerous commonly used scripts including WordPress and Joomla use an .htaccess file. If you get a great deal of fake traffic to your site, for instance, you'll be able to block the access of particular IP addresses and third-party Internet sites, or you could request the guest to type in a username and a password to see the content. You may also set up URL redirecting or use customized error pages for your website, prevent other websites from linking to your content directly and from using your account’s traffic quota, etcetera. An .htaccess file will give you much more control over your websites and the way they function.

.htaccess Generator in Cloud Website Hosting

If you would like to use any of the functionalities that an .htaccess file offers, but you have never dealt with such matters before, you need to use the .htaccess generator tool provided with our cloud website hosting packages. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel and it'll give you a simple and user-friendly means to set up an .htaccess file within any folder you have created within the account. A lot of options shall be available with checkboxes, so you should only choose the one that you need and eventually type a URL - if you are using the file to forward a domain or to set customized error pages for each of your websites. Since our cloud platform supports a number of different PHP versions, you will also be able to set any of these versions for each of your sites even when it is different from the version set for your website hosting account as a whole.