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It is basically a file that contains coded information that guides the server on how to execute various functions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The importance of .htaccess file<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can regulate the permissions that are used to access certain areas. This can include blocking access to unregistered people, to certain users, or even to some IPs and web crawlers.<\/li>\n<li>Also, it can be used to give redirection instructions when there are various URLs to the same page. This is helpful for search engine optimisation.<\/li>\n<li>Also, .htaccess can be used to redirect to error messages whenever the requested file cannot be found.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.htacess is a filed used by Apache Web server software to effect various configurations to the directory where it is located. 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