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htaccess Cheatsheet

Apr 21st, 2009 Blog Tools 9 Comment

A htaccess file is useful since it can block certain items being viewed, change filenames and urls to make them more SEO friendly and redirect websites. It’s something every webmaster needs to add to their site in order to gain maximum efficiency.

Htaccess Guide

Enable Directory Browsing

Options +Indexes
## block a few types of files from showing
IndexIgnore *.wmv *.mp3 *.avi

Disable Directory Browsing

Options All -Indexes

Customize Error Messages

ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
ErrorDocument 500 /servererror.html

Get SSI working with HTML/SHTML

AddType text/html .html
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
# AddHandler server-parsed .htm

Redirect Visitors to New Page/Directory

Redirect oldpage.html http://www.domainname.com/newpage.html

Block Hot Linking/Bandwidth hogging

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mydomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ - [F]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ http://www.mydomain.com/image.gif [R,L]

Avoid the 500 Error

# Avoid 500 error by passing charset AddDefaultCharset utf-8

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