Copy the following to a plain text editor and save as .htaccess<\/em>. Then, via FTP, upload to the root folder of your website (usually called public_html<\/em>). It will be suitable for most hosting environments, but not all. You can find the website template I’ve also written which contains this .htaccess example here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A description of the purpose of each section so that you understand better what’s going on and also so that you can remove any bits you don’t need.<\/p>\n Protects the .htaccess file itself from unauthorized access.<\/p>\n Disables directory indexes so that no one can snoop the contents of folders on your server.<\/p>\n Redirects your site to all non-www.<\/strong> URLs. So, from http:\/\/www.example.com\/<\/em> to http:\/\/example.com\/<\/em>.<\/p>\n Ensures that your homepage is always reached at the proper http:\/\/example.com\/<\/em> as opposed to http:\/\/example.com\/index.php<\/em>.<\/p>\n Allows for cleaner, friendlier URLs. For example: http:\/\/example.com\/contact<\/em> as opposed to http:\/\/example.com\/contact.php<\/em>.<\/p>\n If a visitor types a URL incorrectly, clicked on a link with an error in it, or a page they’re trying to reach no longer exists, instead of seeing a generic error message, can be redirected to a custom error page.<\/p>\n .htaccess is very powerful. You can do a great deal to protect your site from vulnerabilities and spam with it. I highly recommend checking out some of the blacklists<\/a> Perishable Press has to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Code Copy the following to a plain text editor and save as .htaccess. Then, via FTP, upload to the root folder of your website (usually called public_html). It will be suitable for most hosting environments, but not all. You can find the website template I’ve also written which contains this .htaccess example here. <files … Dynamic SEO-Friendly .htaccess File<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,47,4,5],"tags":[239,208,247,205,206],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-programming","category-seo","category-web-design","tag-code","tag-google","tag-programming","tag-seo","tag-web-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<files .htaccess>\r\norder allow,deny\r\ndeny from all\r\n<\/files>\r\n\r\noptions all -indexes\r\n\r\nrewriteengine on\r\n\r\nrewritecond %{http_host} ^www\\.(.*)$ [nc]\r\nrewriterule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/%1\/$1 [r=301,l]\r\n\r\nrewriterule ^\/?(.*\/?)index\\.(htm|html|php) \/$1 [r=301,l]\r\n\r\nrewritecond %{request_filename} !-d\r\nrewritecond %{request_filename}\\.php -f\r\nrewriterule ^(.*)$ $1.php\r\n\r\nerrordocument 404 \/404<\/code><\/pre>\nEach Section Explained<\/h2>\n
<files .htaccess>\r\norder allow,deny\r\ndeny from all\r\n<\/files><\/code><\/pre>\noptions all -indexes<\/code><\/pre>\nrewritecond %{http_host} ^www\\.(.*)$ [nc]\r\nrewriterule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/%1\/$1 [r=301,l]<\/code><\/pre>\nrewriterule ^\/?(.*\/?)index\\.(htm|html|php) \/$1 [r=301,l]<\/code><\/pre>\nrewritecond %{request_filename} !-d\r\nrewritecond %{request_filename}\\.php -f\r\nrewriterule ^(.*)$ $1.php<\/code><\/pre>\nerrordocument 404 \/404<\/code><\/pre>\nSecurity<\/h2>\n