Comments on: Useful .htaccess Tricks for Webmasters

By: ne-design

ne-design — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:50:15 +0000

I believe that can be done using mod_write. Here is an example that may help you.

RewriteCond support/$
RewriteCond support$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%{SERVER_NAME}/support.html

By: Iván

Iván — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:26:48 +0000

Hi, I´d like to hide the extension of my sites, I mean I´d like to see http://www.mysite.com/support instead of http://www.mysite.com/support.html

How could I do that?

By: Laszlo Baranyai

Laszlo Baranyai — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:58:56 +0000

If you have a download script, you can prevent direct access to directory content by (similar to your redirect code):

order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from localhost

I would extend the tricks with some anti-spam options line:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “.*(keyword1|keyword2|etc).*” BadReferrer
order deny,allow
deny from env=BadReferrer

and:

order allow,deny
deny from 1.2.3.4
deny from 2.3.4.
deny from 3.4.
allow from all

This latter with B and C zones will punish the spammers’ service providers and other users as well. Use carefully!

By: ne-design

ne-design — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 18:18:24 +0000

Thanks for your comment AskApache!
I always love your tutorials on Apache.

By: AskApache

AskApache — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:24:55 +0000

Ya isn’t .htaccess awesome! Those particular tips are from versions of my original .htaccess tutorial which has since been updated to the uultimate htaccess tutorial, a series of .htaccess cheatsheets you are free to use!

Also see this passwordrobot post: 5 htaccess tricks every webmaster should know.

By: celeb

celeb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:31:32 +0000

maybe u could just make cheat-sheet you know? might be really useful… with all of the tricks together

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Super Useful .htaccess Tips | reallygoodmagazine.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:06:37 +0000

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By: ne-design

ne-design — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:42:55 +0000

Thanks for another good trick celeb!

I will be making a part 2 for this one. There’s too many .htaccess tricks I couldn’t write it in one day.

By: celeb

celeb — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:17:06 +0000

extremely useful… you could just add this:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(.*)\/article\/(.*)\/ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/article.php?lang=$1&name=$2 [L]

for making “nice” URLs