.htaccess

Password protect an entire directory with PHP authentication

I want to password protect an entire directory and authenticate users though a MySQL database using PHP. I know you can password protect directories using .htaccess but I can't seem to find out how to use PHP and MySQL along with that. ...

How to include a dash(#) in a htaccess rewrite rule?

As you know the dash introduces a comment how can I make this valid? Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.+)\.php$ /#$1 [R=301,NC] ...

Allow hotlinking but redirect when I am my own referrer!

Hey I want to, using htaccess, allow hotlinking BUT if someone views an image on my site I want to redirect them to a "hosted" version of the image where I display my navigation etc. So essentially anyone hotlinking from an external site will not be affected but if someone views the image on my server directly i.e. www.domain.com/image...

.htaccess redirection - two sharing websites

I have two websites that is actually the same where example.com shares all files from examples.com. So whatever changes made in exampples.com, example.com automatically gets updated. That means they have the same .htaccess file. The problem is, I want to both sites redirects to non www to a www url. I got this: RewriteEngine on RewriteC...

safe url with .htaccess and moderewrite

hi guy its my first time here and my english sukcs, sorry... i have a problem with my .htaccess, i'm trying to redirect a page with a safe url using this code: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^noticias/pagina/([0-9]+)/?$ news.php?id=$1 [NC,L] but my swf files called...

How do you create subdomains using PHP? Is is possible on shared hosting?

I'm interested to create subdomains on the fly directly from php. For example when an user create a new page I want that page to be newpage.mydomain.com. Is that possible without changing the php or apache configuration files (supposing I'm using a shared hosting account). Later Edit: I'm talking about my domain, and I have full access ...

Rewrite http to https on some pages only using .htaccess

Hi, I know there is lots of topics regarding my question. I checked them all and tried them out but can't make it work. I need to rewrite http to https on some pages only. After visiting https pages the URL would go back to http. This is what I have so far: # Rewrite Rules for domain.com RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / #Rewrite www ...

mod_rewrite works for '/test', but not for '/'.

The following code inside an .htaccess file is behaving incorrectly.. RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(domain\.com)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /test/$1 [L,QSA] The above will correctly send requests to 'domain.com/uri-here' to the '/test/'...

Security: Deny access to .hg/* via mod_rewrite

My website is a mercurial repository with multiple subrepositories. I need to make sure I'm denying access to all files in every .hg directory on the server. For example, I have http://example.com/.hg/ and http://example.com/subrepo1/.hg/ I've added the following to .htaccess: <Files ~ "^\.(hg|ht)"> Order allow,deny Deny from ...

htaccess: how to redirect all pages to a holding page

I have to put a site down for about half an hour while we put a second server in place. Using .htaccess, how can I redirect ANY request to domain.com to domain.com/holding_page.php? ...

mod_rewrite rule: if URL contains a certain string

My client keeps editing the structure of the navigation in the website, which is leading to some mod_rewrite issues. How could i make this rule: RewriteRule ^studios/about-studios/artist-noticeboard noticeboard2.php?section=studios&subSection=studio-artists [L] to work if the url contains "noticeboard"? Like this: RewriteRule ^IF CON...

redirecting 404 error with .htaccess

Hi, I couldn't find a straight answer to my question and need to know it from the real experts. I had a website which urls were generated by Joomla. I believe that tons of urls are around in the search engines and I really don't know which of them all. A 302 redirect would be an option, but I can't say which urls need to be redirected....

combine error 404 with redirect 301

Hi there, I was wondering if it's possible to use 404 error and 301 redirect in the same .htaccess like this: I have found the most urls which are important that people will be redirected. For the 404 error, these are for the "left overs" Can it be used like this, if there is no rule for a 301, a 404 error applies or will the 301 redi...

Domain routing to directory, .htaccess or DNS-magic?

I have three domains of the same name with tlds: .com, .de and .ru. Can I route the visitor depended on tld he had choosen? As example: test.com routes to /english/ directory, test.de to /german/ directory, test.ru to /russian/ one. I have full access to the server. ...

.htaccess and mod_rewrite

Have the following mod_rewrite rule: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.php -f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L] </IfModule> Which strips .php from any of my urls. However, if I try to specify a 301 redirect to...

Rewriting URL's with Mod_Rewrite

Original Question: what could be the mod_rewrite, to rewrite urls with this structure: http://hiwis.net/jobs/Computer/ to something with this structure: http://hiwis.net/Computer/ -- I need some help with the mod_rewrite for my hiwis(dot)net site to rewrite urls with this structure: hiwis(dot)net/jobs/Computer/ to something with t...

protect folders via htaccess

i want to protect some folders from a normal user but i (from localhost or my IP address) m unable to see the folder structure...so i do this write a .htaccess file in that folder(eg.project/cms/js) and write below code # no nasty crackers in here! order deny,allow deny from all allow from 192.168.1.7 but by using this prohibit to ev...

Access webpage from subdirectory as root page

I have two websites: http://example.com http://example.com/sub I have a page, let's say: http://example.com/sub/page1 Is there any way (using .htacces) to make it possible to access page1 via this url: http://example.com/page1? Redirect 301 won't do the work, because I don't need redirects. Is there any way to omit '/sub/' for cert...

URL Redirection and htaccess security - redirecting non-authenticated users off-site to a live server

We have a dev server that has managed to become indexed by Google. Page 2 of a relevant search on Google will throw up links to the dev server instead of the live one (with the same content.) However, we have now locked the dev server down behind IP address restrictions and htpasswd authentication, so any inbound traffic from google wil...

htaccess rules filtered on IP

I have the following htaccess rule I'd like to apply for every IP address apart from mine. I basically want to show a "site is down" page for everyone apart from myself. How is this best achieved? RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/indexTEMP.php$ RewriteRule $ /indexTEMP.php [R=307,L] ...