Describe your feature request
I’d like that Replit to make visible and editable the .htaccess file. This a very important file that gives a lot of features to a web page, without it a web is not so good.
What problem(s) would this feature solve?
It will let people :
Create a custom 400 page
Create a custom 401 page
Create a custom 403 page
Create a custom 404 page
Create a custom 500 page
Get rid of the HTML file extension in the URL
Stop making people create a folder and putting an index.html file inside to not get the HTML extension in the URL
Make people write less JS code making webs have a higher score in Lighthouse
Explain what you were trying to do when you came across the problem leading to this feature request
I was trying to make a custom 404 page, I didn’t know how so I tried searching in Stackoverflow for some JS code that could help, but sadly I didn’t find anything that worked, that’s why I tried accessing the .htaccess file, but I couldn’t find it.
Change the web server root directory so that you can have a folder with all HTML files and have other files outside that folder that are not accessible via the Web
Allow for making a specific file/folder require Authorization
If you create it (since it is not present by default) it will be accessible BUT it will not have any effect whatsoever on the website. So doing this won’t work. The .htacces is not invisible, it is non-existent. You must create it, but doing so does nothing anyway. Replit need to add support for it themselves.
I highly agree that a .htacces should be editable! Currently, replit does not support 404 pages, or other more complex URL changes via .htaccess files. It’s such a pain – I have to convert it to github repository and do all that – just make a htacces file! It’s really simple!
Just from looking up what the .htaccess file is, the .htaccess file is commonly used in web servers to configure security settings, access controls, and other server-level configurations. So allowing Replit users to edit this file directly could introduce security vulnerabilities if they make incorrect or malicious changes. And it could potentially lead to unauthorized access, directory traversal attacks, or other security breaches. Also if multiple users are allowed to edit the .htaccess file concurrently, there may be conflicts between their changes.
That’s not allowed as the ToS states. If they make incorrect changes, well… they shouldn’t have messed with the file if you don’t know what to do with it.
People can get Apache on their repl if they wanted to. Then, they can make a .htaccess file themselves. So no big changes happen here, it’s more like Replit is making your life easier.
Again, this is nothing new if you use Apache on your Repl. Probably should mean you’re prepared for them.
Pretty sure you can configure your Repl currently as long as you get the correct software.
That is a good point. I feel only owners should see, and edit a .htaccess if it was added.
BTW I got some of the info from 9pfs1, if I said something wrong… blame him correct me.
