.htaccess

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Work

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Arts and letters

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3

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What Wikipedia says

A .htaccess (hypertext access) file is a directory-level configuration file supported by several web servers, used for configuration of website-access settings such as URL redirection, access control, and MIME type handling. The leading dot makes it a hidden file in Unix-like environments.

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