Wordpress and .htaccess noob question

Hi everybody,

I have just installed wordpress on my linode to a subdirectory of my website following this guide.

~~[http://codex.wordpress.org/GivingWordPressItsOwnDirectory" target="blank">](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordP … _Directory">http://codex.wordpress.org/GivingWordPressItsOwn_Directory](

The resulting structrure of the site is the following.

   /
   index.php
   .htaccess
   /wordpress
      ...wordpressfiles
      index.php

Is there any reason for having the .htaccess files also in the wordpress subfolder? Because the guide suggests to keep it (point 7), while for my understanding everything is picked up by the .htaccess file of the root folder.

thank you :roll: