To redirect a folder to another using .htaccess, create
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RedirectMatch 301 ^/OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1 |
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RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^OLD_FOLDER/(.*)$ /NEW_FOLDER/$1 [R=301,NC,L] |
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Redirect 301 /OLD_FOLDER /NEW_FOLDER |
if new folder is on another domain, you can use https://new-domain.com/OLD_FOLDER See Redirect […]
To password protect a web site or a sub folder using .htaccess, create a .htaccess file in the folder.
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vi .htaccess |
Add following content
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AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Content" AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/site-logins Require valid-user |
In this case, i used /etc/apache2/site-logins as AuthUserFile, this will store all user and password. You can change this file path to whatever you need. Make sure it is not accessable […]
On a web site, customer need to redirect all pages to HTTPS, but want to keep files in one of the folder on HTTP. For this, i used following in .htaccess file.
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/auth/.* RewriteRule ^ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] |
Here any url like yourdomain.extn/auth/ will not get redirected to HTTPS. See Redirect […]
It is better to make web site available with one URL. Many sites work with both wwww and non-www (naked domain) urls. Using www or non-www is personal choice. One advantage of using wwww for URL is when you have lot of sub domains. If you use non-www url, cookies set by the domain will […]
A web site had vlunerability, all allowed hacker to upload backdoor script to “uploads” folder used by the script. As a quick fix, i disabled PHP execution from “uploads” folder. Doing this for any site is a good dea when if your site is not vlunerable at the moment. Method 1 To disable PHP execution, […]
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L] |
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RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] |
Redirect a Page to another
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RedirectMatch 301 ^/old-page\.php$ /new-page.php |
You […]