AccessFileName

Although the filename .htaccess will be used throughout this chapter, and in the rest of this book, to indicate the file in which you put per-directory configuration directives, this filename is configurable, using the AccessFileName directive. This directive appears in the main server configuration file, and tells Apache what files to look in for per-directory configuration directives.

The default value for this directive is .htaccess. However, on Microsoft Windows, where filenames starting with a dot are problematic, the directive should be given the value of htaccess, or some other file without a leading dot.