With an .htaccess file, you will determine how the server which manages the requests to your Internet sites have to act in a variety of situations. This is a text file with directives that are performed when somebody tries to open your site and what happens next is determined by the content of the file. As an illustration, you may block a certain IP address from opening the site, so the server will decline the visitor’s request, or you can forward your domain name to another URL, so the server may redirect the visitor to the new web address. You could also use customized error pages or preserve any part of your Internet site with a password, if you place an .htaccess file in the correct folder. Many widely used script-driven applications, including WordPress, Joomla™ and Drupal™, use an .htaccess file to work efficiently.

.htaccess Generator in Web Hosting

If you would like to use any of the functionalities that an .htaccess file provides, but you haven't dealt with such matters before, you can use the .htaccess generator tool included with our web hosting packages. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel and it'll offer you a simple and user-friendly means to set up an .htaccess file inside any folder you have created inside the account. Quite a few options will be available with checkboxes, so you should only pick the one which you need and eventually type in a URL - if you are using the file to redirect a domain or to set custom made error pages for any of your Internet sites. Since our cloud platform supports a number of PHP versions, you shall also be able to set any of these versions for any of your Internet sites regardless if it's different from the version set for your website hosting account as a whole.