htaccess

At present, there is a growing nuisance for users and administrators alike of sites that ruin web servers and more particularly, blogs.

A .htaccess file is a file that works on Apache and other NCSA-compliant webservers. The name is actually a bit of a misnomer due to the fact that hyper-text access is only a small function of what it's capabilities are.

If your site is hosted on a Unix or Linux server which runs Apache, you may already be familiar with your .htaccess file.