Whenever you have folders with large amounts of files or important administration files, it is essential to prevent directory listings, otherwise all of the files in the folder will be listed to anyone who wants to see them, including hackers. When hackers can find an administration file, it makes t...

Bandwidth theft or "hotlinking" is direct linking to a website's files (images, video, etc.). An example would be displaying a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on your own site, journal, weblog, forum posting, etc.

Preventing your e-mail that you placed on your site from being found by spammers is very hard. Some have even taken their e-mail addresses off their sites and replaced them with contact forms to prevent this. Here is a neat .htaccess method to help put a stop to this. This will stop many of the 'bo....

Although there are many uses for a .htaccess file, by far the most popular, and probably most useful, is being able to reliably password protect directories on websites. Although JavaScript can also be used to do this, only .htaccess has total security, because someone must know the password to get ...

A directory's defauly page is usually index.html, index.htm, or index.php. Therefore, when a visitors goes to www.domain.com they are automatically redirected to www.domain.com/index.html. With .htaccess the default directory page can be changed. Open your .htaccess file or create a new one. ....

The standard error pages can be very annoying. When you move a page in your site, visitors have no way of finding where you moved it to in the error page. With custom error pages you can get cool error pages that have the same layout as your site and get rid of the standard ones and replace them wit...

.htaccess is a Unix/Linux based file for Apache web servers that allow you to change access permissions and many other things for files on your web server. To make a .htaccess file, open up an html editor, preferably notepad, and enter your commands(each on a seperate line). When saving your file...

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