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Posted by Matthew Spear
Matthew Spear
14,534 Points

What is a .htaccess file and how can I learn about it?

Trying to learn more about servers, and deploying websites via services like digital ocean.

What is a .htaccess file?

Are there any courses on treehouse that mention them / learn about servers etc?

Thanks,

Matt Spear

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,215 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,215 Points

It's basically a server configuration file used for URL redirection and security (including password access), and some other things.

There's a short but good basic explanation on Wikipedia, with links to more detailed documentation.

Treehouse has some server programming courses, but this is more of a server administration concept. I haven't seen much on that here .. yet.

I have seen some courses on Apache (a very popular server) administration at Udemy and Lynda.