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I am trying to use an .htaccess file to create clan URL for my website. I want to test it on my local version of the site and the upload to the server if I succeed.

The question is, where do I have to put the .htaccess file? (I am using LAMP)

Right now my page's index.php file is in var/www/project/

Should I place the .htaccess file here, and can I have multiple .htaccess files?

If I have another project in folder var/www/project2 and want to set redirect rules for that site too, and some of the rules are different than the ones set on the first project, how can I handle that?

Simon Sheehan
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ppp
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You can configure your rules both in .htaccess and per directory / file / alias... in the apache configuration.

If you uses .htaccess files, you can set them anywhere starting from your server root, and it will have effect on any child folder.

Thus if /var/www is your server root, then /var/www/.htaccess will be checked for both project & project2.

Conversely, /var/www/project/.htaccess will only have effect on this folder and its children, not on /var/www/project2 .

Jaffa
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  • Sorry, my rep is so low I can't even vote up. Thank you for your answer, It clears things a lot for me. – ppp Jan 26 '12 at 06:14
  • @AnPel - you can, however, accept Geoffroy's answer, which you should do if you're satisfied with it. – EEAA Jan 26 '12 at 06:15
  • Can the .htaccess be dynamically generated in any ways? – ppp Jan 26 '12 at 07:06
  • You can, but the better way is to update apache's configuration directly, because .htaccess have an impact on performance. – Jaffa Jan 26 '12 at 08:31