When WordPress Does Not Provide an .htaccess File for New Multisite Sites because of CPanel Fantastico Auto-Installer?

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I have installed WordPress via an auto-installer and later configured it as multisite. But whenever I create the WordPress site using auto-installer it doesn’t give me the .htaccess file by default. So I’ve created an empty file with the name .htaccess in CPanel and pasted this code in to it:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files 
RewriteRule ^files/(.+)wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
[OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d 
RewriteRule ^ - [L] 
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Is it a right method ?

2 Answers
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Sure this is not a problem. As long as you site works and redirects to the right pages there is no harm in doing this. You might also want to use it for protecting your wp-config file from hackers by adding this to your .htaccess:

<Files wp-config.php>
 Order Allow,Deny
 Deny from all
</Files>

Good luck 🙂

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