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.htaccess: Password protecting single files on your website

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:27:37 +0000

This is very simple. For any file you want to have its own password protection, create an .htaccess file in the folder the file resides. Just replace “pagename.html” for the file. Then, just go to our .htpasswd password generator and create the .htpasswd file in the format: username:password, where username is the name required to […]

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Solving “Network Error: Connection Refused” errors when trying to Putty into LAMP stack

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:23:55 +0000

Trying to putty into your server, you may get a “Connection Refused” error. That’s usually because the Open SSH server and client aren’t installed, just run this at the command line and restart Apache. sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

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Linux command line to delete all files and folders in current directory

Aaron Belchamber — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 08:23:24 +0000

In Linux, “cd” your way to the directory you want to completely clean out, then type: I suggest going into the directory first, then “ls” to list the contents so you can see what you’re deleting before using this command, though! Just a reminder, the prompt symbol is the “$” you don’t type that, on […]

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Unzip file to destination folder in LAMP command line

Aaron Belchamber — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:03:05 +0000

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Excluding a specific folder from .htaccess rewrites

Aaron Belchamber — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:16:53 +0000

Here’s a useful .htaccess snippet if you need to exclude a folder from your .htaccess rewrite. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/exclude-folder/.*$ RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1

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Force “www” in domain and prevent hotlinking and bandwidth stealing from your website

Aaron Belchamber — Thu, 15 May 2014 00:36:26 +0000

In your .htaccess file, replace “prolificfutility.com” with your own website. The second set of rewrite conditions will allow search engines to crawl your site but redirect other requests from external sites to a single image or feel free to redirect them to another site! <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> # Force www in website address RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^prolificfutility.com […]

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Quick reference to create URL rewrites in .htaccess

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:36:58 +0000

If you just want to redirect an individual page, set the rewrite rules below by replacing “page1” with the page your want to redirect to, in this case it is “new-page1”. The “page1” on the left can be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than the destination file, by the way! Do you see the pattern? Notice the (.*) […]

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Common .htaccess settings to optimize your website

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 26 Apr 2014 02:27:51 +0000

These are snippets for your .htaccess file, comments are after the # hash tags and explain what each snippet does. Replace “yoursite.com” with your actual website, of course! # www on all URLs. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301] # Switch to HTTPS version of the site. RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} […]

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Optimize your server with caching and compression. Ideal settings for websites using WordPress, Joomla or Magento.

Aaron Belchamber — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:14:22 +0000

These are pretty standard settings, simply lines entered in your site’s root .htaccess file. Be careful modifying your .htaccess file, if you don’t know what you’re doing a rogue semi-colon (;) could easily take your site down and throw that dreaded “500 Server Error” — that’s not the kind of error you want your website […]

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Migrating Joomla articles to a new website and maintain Joomla’s legacy links with .htaccess rewrite rules

Aaron Belchamber — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 17:35:51 +0000

Moving from Joomla to WordPress can be easy with a little planning. One problem is the “legacy” links from Joomla that aren’t so search engine friendly. When migrating to your new site, there are a lot of old links still out there. You don’t want to frustrate your visitors with 404 “page not found” errors […]

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