With an .htaccess file, you can define how the server that deals with the requests to your websites have to act a number of situations. 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 can block a particular IP address from opening the website, and the server will decline the visitor’s request, or you can forward your domain to a different URL, so the server may redirect the visitor to the new web address. You could also use tailor-made error pages or protect any part of your Internet site with a password, if you place an .htaccess file inside the correct folder. Many well-known script-driven applications, such as Drupal™, Joomla™ and WordPress, use an .htaccess file to operate correctly.

.htaccess Generator in Cloud Hosting

If you wish to use any of the functions that an .htaccess file provides, but you have never dealt with such matters before, you need to use the .htaccess generator tool included with all of our cloud hosting packages. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia CP and it'll offer you an easy and user-friendly means to set up an .htaccess file in any folder that you've created inside the account. Quite a few options shall be available with checkboxes, so you should only pick the one that you need and eventually type in a URL - if you are using the file to redirect a domain or to set customized error pages for each of your sites. As our cloud platform supports many different PHP versions, you'll also be able to set any of these versions for each of your websites even if it is different from the version set for your web hosting account as a whole.

.htaccess Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated hosting service that we offer include an efficient, but user-friendly .htaccess generator tool, that will provide you with the option to use this kind of a file for any purpose even when you are not very experienced. The tool is built into the Hepsia Control Panel and has the same intuitive interface. If you want to use any of the options that may be activated via an .htaccess file, you simply need to check the box next to it in the list that you will find when you open the tool. You may also select in which directory of your account the file shall be created and you shall be set. An .htaccess file can also be used to set a PHP version for a specific Internet site which differs from the version that the account itself uses. Should you have any issues, we have detailed help articles and educational videos that shall demonstrate first-hand how to enable any option available within the tool.