With an .htaccess file, you will specify how the server that deals with the requests to your Internet sites should act in various occasions. This is a text file with directives that are executed when someone tries to open your site and what happens next is determined by the content of the file. For example, you can block a certain IP address from accessing your website, and the server will decline the visitor’s request, or you can forward your domain to another URL, so the server may direct the visitor to the new web address. Also you can use custom error pages or preserve any part of your Internet site with a password, if you place an .htaccess file in the correct folder. Many popular script-driven applications, like Drupal™, Joomla™ and WordPress, use an .htaccess file to operate correctly.

.htaccess Generator in Cloud Website Hosting

If you would like to use any of the features an .htaccess file provides, but you've never dealt with this sort of matters before, you need to use the .htaccess generator tool included with all our cloud website hosting solutions. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel and it will give you an easy and intuitive means to set up an .htaccess file within any folder you have created within the account. A huge number of options shall be available with checkboxes, so you should only select the one that you need and eventually enter a URL - if you are using the file to redirect a domain or to set customized error pages for any of your Internet sites. As our cloud platform supports many different 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 Internet hosting account as a whole.