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How To Backup Your .htaccess File Via File Manager On Your Apache Server | WP Learning Lab

In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to backup the .htaccess file using the file manager.

The .htaccess file is a very important file. If even one character of code is out of place it can take your whole site down. To bring your site back up all you have to do is go back into the .htaccess and fix what's broken, but finding the problem can sometimes be difficult.

It's much easier to make a backup of the .htaccess file before you start monkeying around.

All you have to do is log into the folder that contains the .htaccess file and copy or duplicate it. I usually change the name of the duplicate to contain "-bkp" at the end, so it would be labelled .htaccess-bkp.

bkp is shorthand for backup.

Then you can go in and start editing the live .htaccess file. If everything goes well I'll delete the backup.

If something goes sideways, you can either copy the contents of the backup to the live file and save. Or delete the live file and rename the backup to remove the "-bkp".

The .htaccess file can help a lot for WordPress security and hack prevention.

I hope this information helps you! If you have any questions leave a comment below or ping me @WPLearningLab on Twitter.

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