With an .htaccess file, you can specify how the server that manages the requests to your Internet sites have to act in various scenarios. This is a text file with directives that are carried out when someone tries to open your website and what happens next depends on 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 redirect your domain name to a different URL, so the server will redirect the visitor to the new web address. Also you can use custom error pages or protect any part of your Internet site with a password, if you place an .htaccess file in the correct folder. Many popular script-driven apps, like WordPress, Drupal™ and Joomla™, use an .htaccess file to work correctly.
.htaccess Generator in Cloud Hosting
You can use an .htaccess file for any purpose on our innovative cloud platform irrespective of which cloud hosting package you choose when you sign up. What is more, if you would like use one of the functions that this kind of a file provides, but you do not have much experience, you will be able to use our .htaccess generator tool, that will offer you an easy-to-use interface where you can use checkboxes and type in only file names or URLs. In this way, you could use an .htaccess file even though you may not know the syntax of the directives that you have to use in general. With a few clicks, you shall be able to forward a domain, to select an alternative home page for a website, or to even set a different version of PHP for a given website, which can be different from the version which your website hosting account uses.
.htaccess Generator in Semi-dedicated Hosting
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