htaccess Elite

I currently have one .htaccess file associated with my simple site and it's located in the root directory, i.e., listed under the cgi-bin and htdocs entries in 'file explorer' as (shaded) .htaccess.

Is that where it's suppose to be, or is it suppose to be inside the htdocs folder?

All the .htaccess file does at this time is 'hotlink' protection.

Thanks

Actually, it depends what is in your htaccess file.

In my root directory, the .htaccess is

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AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php .htm
Options -Indexes -ExecCGI -Includes -FollowSymLinks
DirectoryIndex index.htm index.html index.php


This specifies that my /public_html/ and /cgi-bin/ and whatever other dirs I have in root, be subject to those rules.

Then in my /public_html/.htaccess file I have the following

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ErrorDocument 404 /inc/e/error.htm
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !powweb\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^scripts/(.*)\.sll$ /cgi-bin/$1.php [T=application/x-httpd-php]


Note, not everything works from the root .htaccess.. and you should also realize that it is a bit more inefficient to use a htaccess file in your root dir.