Can someone please guide me! suppose i have a domain domain.com why .htaccess works for a folder domain.com/abc where a domain abc.com is forwarded and why it dosent work for a normal sub folder domain.com/xyz where there is no domain forwarded and i want to setup a new site on this xyz folder. does it mean by not having a domian pointed to this new folder xyz, the main htaccess in the root of domain.com/ over rides the .htacess in the folder domain.com/xyz/.htacess, if so then how can i control it. Thank you very much.