Questions about all these .htaccess files.
Hi, everyone.
My website has had recurring 404 errors for a while and I used to do a temporary daily fix of resaving the permalink settings in my Wordpress account. Quick and easy fix, but clearly not effective if the problem is occurring daily. Hence, I went with the next option - repairing and saving the .htaccess file in my hosting account.
First issue I found was that the .htaccess file was over 500kb in size, but repairing the code brought that back down to a sensible 200+kb size, So far, so good. HOWEVER, the hosting folder also has a bunch of .htaccess type files that, to me, should be there (see screenshot). I'm no genius web developer (just a humble illustrator running her own portfolio website) so I didn't want to go on a deletion spree without advice.
What should I do? Leave them as is, or cull everything .htaccesswhatever that is NOT the actual .htaccess file?
Edit: Whoops, I should have said 200+ BYTES, not kb. It went from 500+kb to 200+BYTES. My bad. Sorry for the added confusion in something that already has me scratching my head.