.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 a

Answer 1

. (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.