Title: two htaccess files?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# two htaccess files?

 *  [dmd54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmd54/)
 * (@dmd54)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-htaccess-files/)
 * the other day i modified the htaccess file to add gzip on my site. now i appear
   to have two htaccess files in my root directory, one with .htaccess (not including
   the gzip) and one without . that does include gzip. the site seems to be loading
   and acting normally but i don’t understand where the second htaccess file came
   from and whether or not i should delete it or leave it alone?
 * anyone have any ideas??
 * thanks

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 *  [domokun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domokun/)
 * (@domokun)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-htaccess-files/#post-4699118)
 * You probably just accidentally created it when editing the original.
 * A htaccess file will do nothing. Only a .htaccess file by used by WP
 *  Thread Starter [dmd54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dmd54/)
 * (@dmd54)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-htaccess-files/#post-4699207)
 * ok. thanks
 *  [domokun](https://wordpress.org/support/users/domokun/)
 * (@domokun)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-htaccess-files/#post-4699219)
 * No problem. Please mark thread as [resolved]

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## Tags

 * [editing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/editing/)
 * [gzip](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/gzip/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [total cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/total-cache/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-htaccess-files/#post-4699219)
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