.HTACCESS - One File or Two?

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.HTACCESS - One File or Two?

Postby ozental_uk » 13. April 2005 15:03

Hey there. I'm a little confused about .HTACCESS and hope that you can help me. I have a site that features different directory structures and I have different .HTACCESS files scattered around the site. But I'm wondering, do I need more than one .HTACCESS file?

For example, I have one in:

\htdocs\

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<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 123.123.123.123
deny from anaughty.domain.com
</Limit>


<IfModule mod_rewrite.so>
...various re-write statements go here...
</IfModule>


...and one in \htdocs\phpBB\

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DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm portal.php index.php


...and one in \htdocs\phpBB\admin\

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[url]order deny,allow
allow from 666.666.666.666
deny from all[/url]


The first is to block certain sites from accessing any of my site. The second if to provide some index statements for my phpBB2 site. The third is to block anyone by a specified IP from accessing the admin part of my phpBB forum.

But my question is, do I need all of these and is it bad practice to have so many wandering around a site?

Also, is there a heirachy of .HTACCESS files. By this I mean, do all rules and lines mentioned in my \htdocs\.HTACCESS file apply to all sub-folders off of \htdocs\ or do the rules only apply to that directory?
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Postby Dave_L » 13. April 2005 17:20

From http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html

.htaccess files (or "distributed configuration files") provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof.
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Postby prathapml » 13. April 2005 21:24

Hi,
I suggest this tutorial for .htaccess :
http://javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml
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Postby ozental_uk » 14. April 2005 09:47

Thanks.
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Postby sckoh » 16. April 2005 13:06

Hello,
Do you know what to do to remove the .htaccess file from hosting server, with ftp browser?
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Postby ozental_uk » 16. April 2005 14:47

I guess that depends how your site is hosted. Certainly you should be albe to do it via FTP if you have the ability to delete files. This is definately the case for any files that you can upload but there may be certain ISP-related directory files that you there from your ISP that you may not be able to delete.
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Postby prathapml » 16. April 2005 17:33

By ftp _browser_ I dunno what you mean.
But ftp apps do easily delete .htaccess as easily as anything else.
But if you aren't allowed, then you could edit it to blank it out completely.
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