.htaccess Question?

[Deleted member 745]

Hi,

I have installed XenForo in my http://chatfreaks.net/community/ and my question is can I put the included .htaccess file in my root http://chatfreaks.net folder or wont XenForo work right?

What do these line do exactly in the .htaccess file?

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^(data|js|styles|install) - [NC,L]
    RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

 

[Blandt]

Those are for the rewrite rules
it tells apache to redirect paths to index.php. for the pretty URLs to work