.htaccess is a small text file that's installed either directly in a domain folder or in a subfolder to tell the server how it should handle requests when a website or a folder that is part of it is accessed. A lot of famous scripts such as WordPress and Joomla™ use an .htaccess file. If you get a great deal of fake traffic to your website, for example, you may block the access of particular IP addresses and third-party sites, or you may request the visitor to input a username and a password to be able to see the content. You may also set up URL forwarding or use custom error pages for your site, prevent other sites from linking to your content directly and from using your account’s traffic quota, and so on. An .htaccess file gives you significantly more control over your Internet sites and the way they work.

.htaccess Generator in Shared Hosting

If you wish to use any of the features an .htaccess file offers, but you haven't dealt with this sort of matters before, you need to use the .htaccess generator tool included with all our shared hosting packages. The tool is part of our in-house built Hepsia CP and it shall offer you an easy and user-friendly means to create an .htaccess file in any folder you have created in the account. A lot of options shall be available with checkboxes, so you should only choose the one 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 each of your websites. As our cloud platform supports a variety of PHP versions, you'll also be able to set any of these versions for each of your sites even when it is different from the version set for your web hosting account as a whole.

.htaccess Generator in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you start a semi-dedicated server account with our company, you will be able to use our powerful, albeit simple-to-use .htaccess generator tool, that's part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You can pick the folder in which the file shall be set up and after that you'll only need to select a checkbox next to each and every option that you'd like to use - it's as easy as that. If you want to set up URL redirection or to set personalized error pages for each of your websites, you'll also have to type in a web address, but you won't need to input any special code at any time, so you can use our tool even if you have zero previous experience. Because our advanced hosting platform supports several different versions of PHP, you shall also be able to select the version which any website shall use, even if it isn't the same as the one selected for the account as a whole.