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I decided to post some information regarding the importance of Htaccess file. First of all we will look at the name .htaccess.

As it looks like a file name present in windows, it is not so.

In Windows operating system we have a file name like New_text.txt, wordpad.doc[file_name.extension]. You cannot create a file without name and with an extention alone. On the other hand in Unix, .htaccess is a file with a file extension, without a name. You can create a file in whatever manner you want.

You can create .htaccess file even in windows OS also.

So having gone through the introduction, you need to know where .htaccess file exists on the web server. It is in the  root directory of a website where we find a file with .htaccess extension.

A sample htaccess file looks like this.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Purpose of .htaccess is to handle the following cases.

Authorization Required(Error 401)

Forbidden(Error 403)

Not Found(Error 404)

Internal Server Error(Error 500)

There are many more uses with the htaccess file. Recently I resolved one of my wordpress feed-burner issues with the help of  htaccess file only. So folks follow up this blog for many more facts of htaccess files.

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