.htaccess

Best way to password protect a site? .htacess

I created/edited a .htaccess file and I got my site password protected fine. Question though: Is there such thing as a URL key? Maybe I'm wording that incorrectly, but I would like to keep my site hidden, but be able to send out a specific URL that can view the site. What's the best way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance. ...

Apache friendly urls

Hi everyone. I've got a small CMS system written in PHP and running on Apache. The format of the URLs this CMS system uses/generates is: /display.php?PageID=xxx where xxx is just some integer number. As you can see, those URLs are not very friendly, neither for users nor search engines. I believe that using mod_rewrite (or something...

mod_rewrite if file exists

Hi everyone, I already have two rewrite rules that work correctly for now but some more code has to be added to work perfectly. I have a website hosted at mydomain.com and all subdom.mydomain.com are rewrited to mydomain.com/subs/subdom . My CMS has to handle the request if the file being reached does not exist, the rewrite is done li...

apache error log for rewrite rule

Hi, i am getting following error in apache log File does not exist: D:/wamp/www/script/products, referer: http://localhost/script/products/category/product-123.html whenever following url http://localhost/script/products/category/product-123.html is parsed through this rewrite rule RewriteRule ^products/([~A-Za-z0-9-"]+)/([~A-Za-z0-9...

htaccess hotlinking problem

Hi! Iam fighting following problem with little success. I want to block hotlinking to images in static folder from other domains than my_domain.com htaccess looks like this: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?my_domain\.com [NC] RewriteRule \.(gif|jpe?g|js|css)$ - [F,NC,L] Rewr...

GZIP .htaccess and php session problem

Hi, I am trying to implement GZIP compression for my website. I copied the below code in my .htaccess file: ExpiresActive On ExpiresDefault A604800 Header append Cache-Control "public" <IfModule mod_deflate.c> <FilesMatch "\.(js|css)$"> SetOutputFilter DEFLATE </FilesMatch> </IfModule> what happens is when I type userna...

help with htaccess

I want to redirect this: foo.com/xxx ... to this: foo.com/somepage.php?id=xxx This is how I do it: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ RewriteRule ^([^/]+)$ http://foo.com/somepage.php?id=$1 [L] the problem now, is that foo.com doesn't work any more. I can't see foo.com neither foo.com/index.p...

apache htaccess rewrite rules make redirection loop

Hi guys, Have a very strange problem with Apache .htaccess URL Rewriting and Redirection. Here's my setup: I have a zend application with a single point of entry (index.php) directly under my apache document root (call this the "public" folder). I also have all other public files (images, js, css, etc.) under the public folder. Here, ...

[php] catch .htaccess username and password?

i have a secure login using .htaccess, and i need to know which user accessed the area so that my php index can show him his invoices, but the problem is that how to capture the user name when promoted in .htaccess ...

Wordpress 403/404 Errors: You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/themes.php on this server

Some background: I setup six blogs this week, all using Wordpress 2.92, installed with Fantastico on a baby croc plan with Hostgator. I used the same theme (heatmap 2.5.4) and plugins for each blog. They were all up and running, no issues at all. I go to create a new blog this morning, using the same setup, and when I try to change t...

What value to use for include_path in .htaccess

Currently in my .htaccess file I am setting include_path such as this: php_value include_path /mnt/webs/mysite/includes:/usr/share/pear However this isn't great if I need to put my sites on a new server as I need to go through a whole load of sites updating each .htaccess. Basically would like a way to basically say "use the folder c...

MOD_REWRITE HELP!

I want to use mode rewrite to display the following: mydomain.com/Florida/Tampa/ instead of mydomain.com/place.php?state=Florida&city=Tampa I've akready done this: (since I think it might make a difference!) mydomain.com/[name].html instead of mydomain.com/profile?user=[name] Here is the code! Options +FollowSymLinks Options +Indexe...

Subdomain forwarding using .htaccess

I want to redirect a praticular subdomain to the main domain http(s)://dl.example.com/par1/par2 to http(s)://www.example.com/par1/par2 How to achieve the above using .htaccess Why i want to do this: Whenever any user download a file from my server, if the file is huge , then user cannot do any other operation until the file is downloa...

Using a WebView widget to authorize access

I am trying to access a server that requires authorization using the WebView widget in Android. I think it's the .htaccess type of authorization. I works with the default browser provided with the OS, but when I try it with a WebView.. it gives a 401 immediately. Any ideas on how I can have a WebView present the dialog to enter the use...

Send 404 when requesting index.php through .htaccess?

I've recently refactored an existing CodeIgniter application to use url segments instead of query strings, and I'm using a rewriterule in htaccess to rewrite stuff to index.php: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] My problem right now is that a lot of this website's pages are indexed by google with a link to index.php. Since I made t...

How do I redirect this right with .htaccess

Yeah, Iam trying to make the _PRIVATE folder out from the web itself I cant figure out how I do a /../ redirect. Because this is happening in Apache it should allow it somehow. I want ../ because sometimes _PUBLIC is www root, depends on the large sets of webhosts out there, and I want it to work on both setups =/ Structure / (www ro...

How do I prevent access to a php script if not called with a comandline application like curl

How do I prevent access to a php script if not called with a comandline application like curl? I'm working on a web application and it uses a cron script to run it's services. I'm using codeigniter so I have to use a url not a file path. ...

.htaccess not working in subfolder

Hello, I have a couple of sites that are currently under development and I've put them under a specific subfolder for clients/co-workers to view - "http://dev.staffanestberg.com/site-name/". I've run into some problems getting the sites working with .htaccess. I can reach the index page by typing in the url for a site folder but neither...

Htaccess/robots.txt to allow search bots to explore main domain but not directory on other domain

Ok, I understand the Title didn't make any sense so here I've tried to explain it in detail. I'm using a hosting that gives me space for my domain and lets me "add on" other domains on it. So lets say I have a domain A, and I add on a domain B. Basically my hosting gives me a public_html where I can put stuff that shows when someone vis...

Does Flickr "Know" if a Hotlinked Image Does Not Link Back to Source?

From Flickr's community guidelines: "Do link back to Flickr when you post your photos elsewhere. The Flickr service makes it possible to post images hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display images hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo back to its photo page on Flickr." Our...