title: Why do I have .htaccess files in multiple directories?
body: <p>I'm looking through my server because I want to restrict access to some specific folders and i've noticed I have several .htaccess files. One is in the root, the directory before public_html, is that the root, or is public_html the root? And that file enables php5 as default. I then have a htaccess doing some url re-writing in the public_html folder, then I have another one in the wordpress directory.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a need for them to be spread out?</p>
  
  <p>Do I have one htaccess for each folder I want affected or does the htaccess affect a folder plus all of the sub directories?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Also have another htaccess in my wordpress theme folder?</p>