What are these options in htacess?

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Hi guys Ive got this in my htaccess file and id like to know whether this is good or bad and that these options mean.

Options -MultiViews +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
RewriteEngine On

Thanks

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MultiViews is an option that will for example serve foo.php when /foo is requested. This is quite unpredictable and I personally don’t like it. This minus in front means the option is disabled, which is good :+1:

Symlinks are like references in one part of the filesystem to another part. This option means Apache is allowed to follow those, which is generally a good idea :+1:

When this is enabled and a user hits a directory that doesn’t have an index file (like index.html, index.php, etc) it shows a directory listing. You generally don’t want this because it can pose a security risk, so having this disabled is good :+1:

This enables Apache’s RewriteEngine to rewrite URLs. On it’s own this line doesn’t do anything, it just allows RewriteRule and RewriteCond directives.

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Great amazing thanks so much.

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