Almost all cpanel hosting plan support .htaccess overwrite. So does hostgator hosting. Hostgator shared hosting plan, where this hostgatore review site is hosted, is supporting .htaccess file as well.
.htaccess file can give you lots of features, if you know what it is. Most common use is URL redirection, you can perform permanent redirection as well. Or setup permalink feature, commonly seen in blog url with permalink enabled. Or having non-www redirection to www extension page. Or even setup user password protected folders. There are many others usability of .htaccess file in cpanel web hosting.
For this wordpress blog .htaccess file, this is what inside the “.htaccess” file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule># END WordPress
Its simple to setup this .htaccess file, just ftp upload the file to your domain folder, and refresh your browser, its done. Simple as that.
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