Expert SEO Dave Naylor shares a useful tip related to .htaccess files – he calls it a bad decision to have .htaccess files in different directories on your web server:
Example:
- Say I have my site, path-wise located at /
- My site also has a shop, located at /shop/
The problem is that your /shop/.htaccess not only overrides /.htaccess for all the /shop/.* URLs, but it actually *disables* all the rewrites for /.htaccess.
This is a problem if for example you one day decide to do any mass site-wide redirects, such as domain or protocol canonicalisation. Cleaning up those old URLs can be a problem too.
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