To redirect a website from HTTP to HTTPS, you can use the following code in .htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NE] If you want to redirect HTTP to HTTPS and keep SSL verification pages on HTTP, this is needed on Cpanel servers. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} … Read more
Some bots can cause a high load on servers as they index too many pages or get into some never-ending loop. last day one of the servers I manage had a very high load. On checking Apache logs, I have thousands of access like In this case, the bot user agent is To block the … Read more
You may need to deny access to specific files on your web server for security reasons. On the Apache web server, you can do this by using .htaccess file. Let’s say you need to prevent anyone from accessing the file with the name .user.ini, you can create a file with the name .htaccess with the … Read more
What is Expires Headers Expires headers are a type of HTTP header that indicates how long until cached copies of site resources expire. Expires headers tell the browsers what resource can be stored and fetched from the browser’s cache or the source itself. Using the expires headers, you maximize the speed of your site by … Read more
To redirect a subdomain to a subdirectory, use following .htaccess code. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(.*)\.domain\.com RewriteRule ^(.*)$ subdomains/%1/$1 [L,NC,QSA] Redirect Subdirectory to Subdomain RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ RewriteRule ^/?subdomain/(.*)$ https://subdomain.example.com/$1 [R=301] See htaccess
On Apache server, React Application works fine, but if you refresh a page, it shows 404 error. This is because the application use BrowserRouter. To fix the error, create a .htaccess file with following content or following code, this results in http 200 for non-existant pages. Put this on the folder where your application index.html … Read more
To redirect a folder to another using .htaccess, create RedirectMatch 301 ^/OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1 Or RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1 [R=301,NC,L] Or Redirect 301 /OLD_FOLDER /NEW_FOLDER if new folder is on another domain, you can use https://new-domain.com/OLD_FOLDER See Redirect
To password protect a web site or a sub folder using .htaccess, create a .htaccess file in the folder. vi .htaccess Add following content AuthType Basic AuthName “Restricted Content” AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/site-logins Require valid-user In this case, i used /etc/apache2/site-logins as AuthUserFile, this will store all user and password. You can change this file path to … Read more
On a web site, customer need to redirect all pages to HTTPS, but want to keep files in one of the folder on HTTP. For this, i used following in .htaccess file. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/auth/.* RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] Here any url like yourdomain.extn/auth/ will not get redirected to HTTPS. … Read more
It is better to make web site available with one URL. Many sites work with both wwww and non-www (naked domain) urls. Using www or non-www is personal choice. One advantage of using wwww for URL is when you have lot of sub domains. If you use non-www url, cookies set by the domain will … Read more
A web site had vlunerability, all allowed hacker to upload backdoor script to “uploads” folder used by the script. As a quick fix, i disabled PHP execution from “uploads” folder. Doing this for any site is a good dea when if your site is not vlunerable at the moment. Method 1 To disable PHP execution, … Read more
Limit Access Using htaccess Apache Limit access to a url Disable PHP on a folder How to protect .git folder using htaccess Password Protect Site using htaccess React Application showing 404 error on refresh Redirect Subdomain to Subdirectory How to Create Custom 404 Error Page in Apache CPanel SSL Renew on password protected site Magento … Read more