I know what an htaccess file is and I have been using them for years. But I was wondering where to place it on my server's SCC Pro shop area ? I don't want to lock everyone out. The .htaccess file I was thinking of was to protect any sensitive areas from access by anyone other than myself.

I am hoping that it is safer than a certain other kind of shop software beginning with the letters "os" - my shop using that software was being damaged every day last week by some idiot hackers adding php files to send spam from my images folder..

For the shop, there really isn't much you can lock down as everything is dynamically passed through a PHP script. It is pretty much all or nothing when it comes to htaccess with Shopping Cart Creator.

If you are thinking about digital content may be that could be locked away and the success page on purchase could contain the unlock code and the link.
How where they adding php files. There has to be some input path where files can be uploaded. I believe if your shop is on S_Drive php files are rejected. Nothing is totally safe but you do not leave your front door open. More info please with what you want to protect and why. Inquisitive am I.

Well, as I mentioned in my first post, my former shop (using os.....) was being regularly hacked and php scripts added so that the hackers were able to use my image folder to send out filthy emails.
So having noticed the "enable htaccess...." in the shop settings of SCC Pro, I took for granted that one could make an htaccess file and put it somewhere to stop hackers adding their filth or from changing any of my own files.
I don't know what S-Drive is. My own shop is on my IT's provider's server along with two other of my websites and at my end, it is on two external harddisks - one holding the original files and which automatically backs up to the second external hd twice a day.

Prism asks: "Nothing is totally safe but you do not leave your front door open"

If htaccess would make the entire access to the shop password protected, how else can one protect ones files ?
And why does SCC Pro offer that option ?