Directory-level configuration file found mostly on Apache web servers

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htaccess preventing sqlite database being downloaded

I have a VPS, running apache2 on Debian 6. Created a file called .htaccess on the web root, which included: <Files ~ "\.db$"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> ...
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sub folder non-www redirect

Is there a way to redirect a sub folder to non-www? What i use is: RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L] BUT this only ...
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What to set for AllowOverride & Options

What is normally used as settings for both production or development servers for settings AllowOverride & Options? I will be needing to use .htaccess for WordPress so things like mod_rewrite etc
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Mod Rewrite question

Is there a way to rewrite http://localhost/embed/player.swf?file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yKDhm4_-90 to something smaller? or is there a way to change this into ...
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Howto use .htaccess with exclusions

I want all requests on a domain to be redirected to https, with the exception of just one particular file. I'm not sure how to accomplish that with .htaccess -bash-3.2# cat .htaccess ErrorDocument ...
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Redirection with PHP or .htaccess - which is better for SEO?

I need one practical advice - is better to redirect with .htaccess Redirect 301 rules, or to use PHP header function (after parsing URL)? Which one is better to Google and SEO? Tnx in adv!
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How to prevent a specific website from linking to our domain?

We have a landing page which is used only for running an ad campaign. There is a website that has found this link somehow and is linking to it. I've been told by marketing they don't want that website ...
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.htaccess RewriteRule $1 contains wrong value

I have a RewriteRule that is not behaving as I expect. I want site.com/author/fred to map to site.com/author/index.php?a=fred I have an author directory within the site root. The author directory ...
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Apache redirecting: reason unknown

I have a simple php script. The script is not important. It just prints out $_SERVER. When I request an URL like www.server.com/?ref=bar everything is fine. However if the request contains something ...
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SEO: Full Redirect from Subdomain to Root Domain

I recently setup a staging site on our server's subdomain. Somehow Google managed to crawl the pages. Now we are ready to transfer the files to the main domain and delete the files on the subdomain. ...
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Mod Rewrite - directing HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the appropriate virtual hosts

I have an Apache2 web server (v. 2.2.16) running on Debian hosting three virtual hosts. The first two hosts are HTTP only (server1 and server2). The last host is HTTPS only (server3). My virtual host ...
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How to set suhosin.post.max_vars in a htaccess file

I need to add this values to my htaccess: suhosin.request.max_vars = 8000 suhosin.post.max_vars = 8000 If I just add them like that I get an Internal Server Error Which is the right way to ...
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How do I make SEO friendly URLs?

My url is: website.com/profile/?id=24 I want it to be: website.com/profile/kevinlee The ?id=24 will be replaced with the username of the id=24 in the database How do I convert it to that?
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Rewrite Issue on index.html

I have index.html on my html_directory on my website also I entered a rule as follows: RewriteRule ^index.html$ newindex.php It seems requests to my site is routing to my index.html file , my ...
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How to point two domains to one ip address with a sub-domain

I am a little stuck here I currently have a domain: www.my-site.org & m.my-site.org I want to point m.mainsite.org to m.my-site.org I already have an A record created for m.mainsite.org I need ...
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Setting up a redirect from 'www.example.com' to 'www.mysite.com/blog'

hopefully someone can give me a roadmap to get this done. I run a self-hosted Wordpress blog at http://www.example.com which has numerous posts/links such as ...
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Apache: Virtual Host and .htacess for URL Rewriting not working

I have configured a virtual host in my local machine and every thing is working fine. Now I want to use SEO friendly urls. To achieve this I have used the .htaccess file. My virtual host ...
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Separate 404 page for subdirectory

I've made a subsite which runs under mydomain.com/subsite - idealy from an architecture point of view it would be under a subdomain, but we wanted the links to come back to the main domain. The sub ...
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.htaccess 301 Redirect Hash Tag Redirect

How do I do a .htaccess redirect that has a hash tag in it? Example Source: domain.com/#/subdir Target: newdomain.com/whatever/something Everything I've tried ignores the hash tag and either ...
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Strange links appearing in 404 logs

I've recently been going through our 404 logs and we have a number of urls which look like this turning up:- ...
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htaccess 301 redirect subdirectory one level deeper - why is this not working?

it is probably a stupid question, but I have real troubles figuring out, how to redirect /products to /products/item It is a simple redirect, no regex needed. The toplevel site /products should just ...
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.htaccess redirect to subfolder in different domain, maintaining old domain in the URL

Redirect has been widely discussed and most problems solved, so I am sorry for opening yet another post about this, but none of the codes I am trying work. I have a WordPress site hosted in ...
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.htaccess - if not exist, rewrite to index.php but send 404 instead of 200

I have a catchall .htaccess directive like this: RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L] Anything that doesn't exist and the url is ...
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What's wrong with my htaccess ? (500 Error)

I've written a small htaccess file to redirect Internet Explorer users to a specific page Here are the contents : # MS Internet Explorer - Mozilla v4 RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ...
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Can Apache “Correct” URL Case?

Let's say I keep every word of file names capitalized. For example, Home.php or MultipleWordTitle.html. Is there any way for Apache to redirect requests for incorrectly-cased URLs to the capitalized ...
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How do I get mod_rewrite working with typo and wordpress?

I've some trouble with typo3 (mydomain.net) and wordpress (mydomain.net/blog/) using mod_rewrite. First I was running a typo3 installation which uses mod_rewirte without trouble. Now I'm trying to ...
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htaccess and 301 redirects - multiple domains

I have the following which redirects mydomain1.co.uk and mydomain1.com to www.mydomain1.com perfectly. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.mydomain1\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ...
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mod_rewrite: rewriting http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING

I'm trying to make http://$SOMETHING.app.example.com/ transparently rewrite to http://www.example.com/app/$SOMETHING. The config below is giving me a 404 and I'm not sure why. ServerName ...
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.htaccess password protection generates 500 internal server error

I have created a .htpasswd file using htaccess tools of which I have uploaded to the root of my web hosting space (/public_html is my web root). I created a .htaccess file which referenced the ...
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One-user databaseless CMS authentication

Background: My client needs a one-user bare-bones content management system, which should be capable to Edit text-content in plain-text or in WYSIWYG-style Possibly create new subpages Update image ...
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Automatic redirection from http to https with .htaccess authentication in virtual hosting

Hi I have configured Virtual host on apache with .htaccess authentication with SSL. It's working fine when I typed url https://www.example.com:9004/test.php but when I typed ...
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Etags are not appearing on PHP pages

My hosting provider (goDaddy) seems to be adding eTags to my files. However I've noticed that they are not appearing on .PHP file (they are on .HTM, .CSS, .JS and images). Is this normal? From my ...
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.htaccess keeps being deleted from my root directory

I have a site built on the ModX Evo CMS. I have noticed that almost every day the .htaccess file is deleted meaning the FURLs no longer work. I have scanned for viruses and found nothing. Does anyone ...
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Host website on UNIX, but email on Windows?

Client has web hosting and email hosting from one web provider. Their email hosting is integrated with their systems for their office — an Exchange server (located on their premises). Both are on a ...
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Is it possible to use two different ErrorDocuments for different paths of a website?

I currently run PmWiki at mydomain.com/pmwiki. I have a 404 page and .htaccess set up in my site's document root for 404 pages regarding anything that doesn't have to do with my wiki. By default, ...
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RedirectMatch in .htaccess not working

I am using Transposh plugin to make my site 'bilingual'. Unfortunately, despite having English as the default language and therefore available at carolineelisa.com/xxx, Google is indexing ...
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conditional DirectoryIndex based on IP address, using .htaccess

I've got this in httpd.conf: <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xx.xxx> Options All +ExecCGI ServerAdmin hostmaster@thehost.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain.com ServerName dl.domain.org ...
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How to Do htaccess 301 Redirect from Old Filename Pattern to New Filename Pattern?

I have a bunch of old files prefixed with "old-" (e.g. "old-abcde.php"). I need an htaccess rule to set up a 301 redirect so that any request for a file starting with "old-" goes to its corresponding ...
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mod_rewrite for directories

One of our developers who built the framework that our website uses is no longer with us and I appear to have a stack of issues across the site currently, one being URL rewriting across the site. ...
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.htaccess: allow from - using dynamic IP - defining the static portion of my IP?

I'm looking to secure my phpMyAdmin dir from being accessed from other IPs than my own, albeit dynamic IP, let's say it is 191.164.1.xxx (xxx = being dynamic numbers). Referring to the Apache ...
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Website .htaccess file for Wordpress sub folder

I developed a Flash website for a client and added the following .htaccess file in the root directory and the non-www to www redirect works perfectly. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ...
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.htaccess - lose the file .html extension

I'm having a bad .htaccess day! I want a user to be able to type the URL mysite.com/about instead of mysite.com/about.html On .htaccess file I have: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond ...
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Full password not required to access password protected directory?

I password protected a directory in cPanel. When I went to access the page in my browser, I accidentally hit backspace on the password before I hit enter. Surprisingly, the page still loaded. I played ...
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Having mod_rewrite not rewrite requests for a particular directory

I have many forward rules written in my .htaccess file. However, for the requests to a certain directory and its subdirectory, say wordpress, I don't want to use the forward rules. RewriteEngine On ...
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.htaccess issue (500 - Internal Server Error) error

I was trying to learn how to edit and make a .htaccess file using a tutorial found at corz.org, I copied an existing .htaccess file from another site on my localhost and pasted the following content ...
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Apache: use `foo.html` in preference to `foo/` when both exist

How to get Apache 2.2 to use foo.html in preference to foo/ when both exist? I'm moving a site from dynamic php to static html, while retaining the domain name. I've created a temporary mirror using ...
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Forward .html/.htm to .php with .config

I'm moving a site from my linux hosted server to a client's windows hosted server. The .htaccess file no longer works and I'm told that windows servers use .config . How can I forward all users ...
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how to best enable gzip compression on shared hosting

I must assume that this is a duplicate question, but I could not find the answer myself. I want to enable gzip compression to everything my website sends (mostly php, css, a slight bit of js). this ...
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Site overthrown by Turkish hackers

Go ahead, laugh. I forgot to remove the default admin/admin account on my blog. SOmebody got in and has replaced my homepage with some internet graffiti. I've used .htaccess to replace the page with a ...
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URL Rewrite to subdomains?

say i have a website with /article.php?id=1&category=Minecraft&Name=Lorem+Ipsum and /topic.php?category=Minecraft how would i setup url rewrite to make the topic pages being ...

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