When your working on a website on your hosting account or server, it is often a good idea to prevent access to what you are building until you are ready to launch. This is highly recommended when you have a website you don't want the Global community or worse, your competitors to know about. This little tutorial using .htaccess will show...
Search engines follow their own set of rules, each one different and rarely do two search engines have the same algorithyms for how they display search results. This includes the major players like Google, MSN, Yahoo, and so on. But to healp make your website URL’s more friendly to most of them, we can deal with an issue of pages that...
Some time you need to change permission of a particular folder to 777 so that user can upload scripts/images or any application they are using on that folder. Once you set 777 permission for any folder, then that folder can be read, write and execute by anyone accessing it. Its most favorite folder type for Hackers, they always search...
On problem that can occur with using commercial scripts, especially scripts that uses an SQL database, is that hackers and nasties know what config files are and what SQL injection can be used. To access the database a common file is used to store the database login information. This normally is named config.php, vars.php, database.php...
301 redirect is the smoothest and most SEO friendly way to redirect traffic for a domain or webpage. We do this with .htaccess. This will only work on Apache and not on Windows servers.
If you do have an .htaccess file in your root directory, create one and upload in ASCII (text) mode.
To redirect a single...
