Magento – Magento 1.9 – .htaccess file missing

Over time, the old pages will drop out of google's indexes and the new ones will be added. You could create a sitemap and submit it to google. That might make this process faster.

In the admin, go to Catalog/Google Site Map

Click Add Sitemap

Whatever file and path you choose must be writeable. Once you generate the sitemap, you can go to your Google webmasters account and give them the web path to the sitemap.

If you want to use rewrites, you would want to use the status code for "permanently moved". You should probably ask a rewrite question on stack overflow. It's a pretty general question and easily answered there.

After lots of effort i solved the issue. It was an issue caused due to .htaccess

Now after making modifications in .htaccess of the root folder. I checked the subfolders where other two of my websites were kept.

1) First thing i did was delete the .htaccess file in that folders.

2) As my images were not loading, i went to the media folder there i found .htaccess file. The content of .htaccess file was as follows

Options All -Indexes
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
php_flag engine 0
</IfModule>

AddHandler cgi-script .php .pl .py .jsp .asp .htm .shtml .sh .cgi
Options -ExecCGI

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

############################################
## enable rewrites

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on

############################################
## never rewrite for existing files
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

############################################
## rewrite everything else to index.php

    RewriteRule .* ../get.php [L]
</IfModule>

I am not sure how it was giving Internal Server Error. But i deleted it from media folder of both subfolders as i though it wont be much of a risk. This started loading my images.

As i am not an expert on .htaccess i am not sure what security threat it will cause on the website.

It would be great if anyone can advice me on this