Call it my negligence or anything else but since the day I setup this website, I did not care to go back and check if I had taken care to disable directory listing on all the folders in my website. For those who are wondering what Directory Listing is, a simple explanation could be that [...]
Many of our readers have sent emails from time to time asking for help with various aspects of blogging, blog hosting and blog hosting software. One of the most common mistakes, that we observed, most of them were making was not to check what their blog web hosting company was offering before they purchased an [...]
One of the many sophisticated and powerful modules in Apache is mod_rewrite. It’s used for URL manipulation, also known as URL rewriting. It’s very powerful but very complicated in nature. Beginners may find it a little difficult to understand it the first time but people with knowledge of regular expressions will love its ease [...]
I hope you have gone through the examples listed in first part of this tutorial. If not, it’s here - [Beginners guide to .htaccess file with examples].
In this part, we will cover more examples with .htaccess file.
Presenting custom error pages
Use .htaccess file to present users with your custom pages for 401 [Authorization Required], 403 [Forbidden], [...]
.htaccess files provides us with ways to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. This file works well in Apache Web Server and on Linux/Unix. Also, it works on Windows based system, such as Windows XP/2000/2003, with Apache Web server. This article has some basic .htaccess examples to get you working with .htaccess right away. [...]