Can I delete this?

excess code in htaccess file

[Lorel]

I have a site that I took over and it has a bunch of code in the htaccess file that I'm not familiar with. I would like to delete it and use the same code I use on my other sites (all apache servers).

Can someone tell me what the following does?

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.?* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.example.org
AuthUserFile /var/chroot/home/content/a/l/i/example/html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /var/chroot/home/content/a/l/i/example/html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

[sitz]

Have you read:
[httpd.apache.org ]
[httpd.apache.org ]
[httpd.apache.org ]

?

[Lorel]

thanks for the links