By default most web servers across the internet are configured to treat as PHP files only files that end with .php. In case you need to have your HTML files parsed as PHP (e.g .html) or even if you want to take it further and make your PHP files look like ASP, you can do […]
In case your web hosting account is not configured to server certain mime types with the proper content type. You can change this using .htaccess file. For example if you need to configure your server to display ASX files: AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx For windows media audio WMA AddType audio/x-ms-wma .wma A comprehensive list of […]
ModRewrite is a powerful feature of the Apache web server. It provides an easy way to modify/manipulate URLs. As complicated as it sounds a regular webmaster can benefit from this feature in many way. I will list here the ones I consider most useful for the regular webmaster. Create easy to remember URLs or also […]
Most probably you have been wondering how the Webserver decides which page from your site to use as a main/default page of your site. There is a directive named DirectoryIndex which takes care of this. On most web servers there is a pre-defined set of file names which server a start page. The most commonly […]
In case your web hosting account is not configured to server certain mime types with the proper content type. You can change this using .htaccess file. For example if you need to configure your server to display ASX files: AddType video/x-ms-asf asf asx For windows media audio WMA AddType audio/x-ms-wma .wma A comprehensive list of […]
As .htaccess is a powerful tool. It gives you option to change the way the webserver serves your files. On most web hosting servers you can use SSI (Server Side Includes) in shtml, or shtm files. However, you need to use SSI in your .html and htm files. There is an easy solution for this. […]
If you have several domain names parked/pointed at your site it is a good idea to create permanent 301 redirect for them so for the search engines not to treat them as duplicate content. Here is a sample .htaccess that will do that: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^parkeddomain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^parkeddomain-2.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.maindomain.com/$1 […]
Sometimes you may need to make sure that the user is browsing your site over securte connection. An easy to way to always redirect the user to secure connection (https://) can be accomplished with a .htaccess file containing the following lines: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L] Please, note that the .htaccess […]
ModRewrite is a powerful feature of the Apache web server. It provides an easy way to modify/manipulate URLs. As complicated as it sounds a regular webmaster can benefit from this feature in many way. I will list here the ones I consider most useful for the regular webmaster. Create easy to remember URLs or also […]
Sometimes you need to redirect some URL and/or page on your site to another one. The feature is very useful if you have recently redesigned your site but you wish to keep the old addresses working for various reasons (you have links to these pages from other sites, some users may have the old pages […]