I’ve never worked with an htaccess file and so I’m not sure if I have anything correct in it and I’m not sure if I’m supposed to have one.
I’ve looked up some documentation and there hasn’t been much help. Is it essential to running an apache server to include an htaccess file?
It lets you configure a web server on a per-directory basis without restarting the server
In the directory you want it to apply to
It does what you want it to do (which could be any number of a huge number of different things) without filling your log files full of errors.
Some other webservers also support htaccess.
Define “Fix”. Server configuration certainly can’t make deleted content reappear.