Will editing the .htaccess file in cpanel effect all my wordpress domains and subdomains?

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    I added the following to my cpanel .htaccess file on my hosting account:

    <FilesMatch "\.pdf$">header set x-robots-tag: noindex
    </FilesMatch>

    This was to stop Google from crawling and indexing my PDFs, will this work accross all my addon domains and subdomains (which are wordpress) on my hosting account or do I need to take extra measure?

    Thanks.
     
    Domoner, Mar 26, 2014 IP
  2. Nigel Lew

    Nigel Lew Notable Member

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    You would probably need to do that in every root folder for X site.

    Nigel
     
    Nigel Lew, Mar 26, 2014 IP
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  3. Domoner

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    You're not serious? How do I even do that, using Filezilla??
    Thanks.
     
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    Its not exactly complicated.
    And yes, i use filezilla.

    If you find that to be a tenuous situation then you have gone about things wrong in the first place.

    Nigel
     
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    In Cpanel - File Manager, I can choose any of the addons and sub domains - however should I be editing the .htaccess in the Document Root or Web Root if anyone knows.
     
    Domoner, Mar 27, 2014 IP