.htaccess is a small text file which is located either directly inside a domain folder or inside a subfolder to guide the web server how it must manage requests when a website or a folder which is part of it is accessed. Many commonly used scripts such as WordPress and Joomla™ use an .htaccess file. If you get a lot of fake traffic to your site, for example, you'll be able to block the access of particular IP addresses and third-party Internet sites, or you may request the visitor to type in a username and a password in order to view the content. You could also set up URL redirecting or use custom error pages for your Internet site, prevent other Internet sites from linking to your content directly and from using your account’s traffic quota, etc. An .htaccess file shall give you significantly more control over your websites and the way they function.

.htaccess Generator in Shared Hosting

If you want to use any of the functionalities that an .htaccess file provides, but you have not dealt with this kind of matters before, you can use the .htaccess generator tool offered with all of our shared hosting solutions. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia CP and it will offer you an uncomplicated and user-friendly means to set up an .htaccess file in any folder you have created in the account. Quite a few options shall be available with checkboxes, so you should only choose the one that you need and eventually input a URL - if you are using the file to forward a domain or to set custom made error pages for each of your Internet sites. As our cloud platform supports a variety of PHP versions, you shall also be able to set any of these versions for each of your Internet sites even when it's different from the version set for your hosting account as a whole.

.htaccess Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server solutions come with an .htaccess generator tool, which is easy enough to be used by people with zero previous experience. You will be able to access it using your Hepsia CP and use a user-friendly interface to activate any option you need. Once you choose the folder where our system will set up the .htaccess file, you just need to check the boxes beside the options that you would like to activate, then save the changes and you'll be ready. The only thing you shall have to input by hand shall be a URL - if you want to use the .htaccess file to forward one of your domains/subdomains to another address or if you want to use customized error pages. Our platform will also enable you to set the PHP version which a site will use by putting an .htaccess file within its root folder, no matter if your account as a whole uses a different version.