htaccess and website security

[stevefriedman71]

does anyone have a suggestion about htaccess and where i could have one done for us?

[skrillnet]

What exactly do you mean? .htaccess is a file used by the Apache system as a kind of configuration file to determine what to do with the HTTP request. What are you trying to accomplish exactly? Lock folders? Redirect URLs? Need more details please :)

[stevefriedman71]

htaccess isn't just for that, it is also used to keep bad people away, also for robot that don't care about robots.txt, countries you may not want to sell to etc., etc... - to make your website a little safer from scams, spams, hacks, bandwidth theft...

[RodG]

htaccess isn't just for that, it is also used to keep bad people away, also for robot that don't care about robots.txt, countries you may not want to sell to etc., etc... - to make your website a little safer from scams, spams, hacks, bandwidth theft...

.htaccess can be used for many things, as you have just stated, but skrillnets' statement that
" .htaccess is a file used by the Apache system as a kind of configuration file to determine what to do with the HTTP request" is pretty much a perfect description of what it *IS*. This is not to be confused with the things it can *DO*.

We can't really answer your original question unless we know what it is you are trying to do, but no matter what, one question we cannot answer at all is "where i could have one done for us?" because this isn't the kind of thing that people normally have 'done' for them. The file itself is nothing more than a text file that most people edit themselves (usually using cut n paste) based on thier individual needs.

So, to repeat skrillnet, if you let us know what you wish to do, someone will probably be able to tell you how to do it.

Cheers
Rod

[schoolboy]

There are other (and probably better) ways of protecting your site. Zencart does not natively use htaccess in the root. As Rod says, once we know what you are trying to achieve, we might be able to offer suggestions.