Multiple .htaccess files with different names in same directory

  • Hello all,

    I am facing a weird problem and didn’t find the solution online or on this forum, so posting it here.

    To leverage browser caching, I just accessed my cpanel’s root directory to find the .htaccess file. But, there are 3 different files available. The names are as follows –

    .htaccess
    .htaccess05122016
    .htaccess05152016

    What to do with the files which contain date along with the “htaccess” term? Should I delete them? Because I want to use browser caching to speed up the website. These two more files may overwrite the actions which I mention on the main htaccess file?

    Please suggest..

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    The only one that’s “active” is .htaccess, so you can delete the other two. Do you know how they got created?

    Thread Starter jatin11

    (@jatin11)

    Thanks sterndata

    I am really clueless that how they are created. But, I hope that now I can relax when I know that the changes in .htaccess won’t be effected by other htaccess files.

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