htaccess where is located when not in www base dir

Question

I may need to modify our  htaccess file   Problem is I can t find it   We have several subdomains along side each other in the vhosts directory  and each subdomain has an associated  htpasswd file   How can find where the  htaccess file is   Obviously  I didn t set this up and I m certainly not known as an unix admin expert

User · Accepted Answer

dot  files are hidden by default on Unix Linux systems   Most likely  if you know they are  htaccess files  then they are probably in the root folder for the website   If you are using a command line  terminal  to access  then they will only show up if you use   ls -a   If you are using a GUI application  look for a setting to  show hidden files  or something similar   If you still have no luck  and you are on a terminal  you can execute these commands to search the whole system  may take some time    cd   find   -name   htaccess    This will list out any files it finds with that name

User · Answer

The  htaccess is either in the root-directory of your webpage or in the directory you want to protect   Make sure to make them visible in your filesystem  because AFAIK  I m no unix expert either  files starting with a period are invisible by default on unix-systems

[apache] .htaccess: where is located when not in www base dir

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