.htaccess is a small text file that is installed either directly in a domain folder or in a subfolder to inform the server how it should manage requests when a website or a folder that's part of it is accessed. A lot of famous scripts like Joomla™ and WordPress use an .htaccess file. If you get a great deal of fake traffic to your Internet site, for instance, you could block the access of specific IP addresses and third-party Internet sites, or you could request the visitor to type in a username and a password in order to view the content. You could also set up URL forwarding or use personalized error pages for your website, prevent other Internet sites from linking to your content directly and from using your account’s traffic quota, etc. An .htaccess file offers you significantly more control over your sites and the way they work.

.htaccess Generator in Shared Hosting

You may use an .htaccess file for any purpose on our modern cloud platform irrespective of which Linux shared hosting you pick when you sign up. Furthermore, if you want to use one of the functions that this type of a file provides, but you don't have much experience, you may use our .htaccess generator tool, which will provide you with an easy-to-use interface where you can use checkboxes and enter only file names or URLs. In this way, you can use an .htaccess file even though you may not know the syntax of the directives you have to use in general. With just a few clicks, you'll be able to redirect a domain, to select an alternative homepage for an Internet site, or to even set a different version of PHP for a specific site, which could be different from the version your website hosting account uses.