.htaccess - What is .htaccess, how its work and what benefits?

<body> <h1><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.easywebtutorials.com/tutorials/htaccess.html" >What is .htaccess, how its work and what benefits?</a></h1> <p>Learn how to create and use htaccess files on apache servers to enable server side includes, PHP parsing, password protect directories, ban IPs and more.</p> <p><a href="http://www.tutcity.com/">More Tutorials</a></p> </body>