A common requirement when performing maintenance on your website is to redirect all requests to a downtime message. This can be very easily achieve using mod_rewrite and a .htaccess file. Simply create an .htaccess file with the following commands: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule !^site-down\.html$ /site-down.html [L] This will redirect all requests to the site-down.html file. Once [...]
If you’re in the process of setting up a new server, and you want users to have the ability to execute scripts in their home directory: http://myserver.com/~myname You will often run into problems with suexec. suexec is an apache security construct to stop users from executing scripts outside of a known path. I was recieving [...]
Recently I needed to change the end of one of our domains from .com to .org. However we wanted to maintain any old links that pointed at the .com domain. Using mod_rewrite you can achieve this move seamlessly for users, and keep all the parameters in tact. Simply add the following lines to your .htaccess [...]
The following is a really useful .htaccess configuration options to allow certain IP address to access a site without a password, while requiring everyone else to enter a password: AuthName “My Secret Page Here” AuthUserFile /sites/apache-passwords AuthType Basic Require valid-user Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 171.231.12.8 Satisfy Any Some really handy examples are [...]
Recently I upgraded to a new Mac. I like to install applications from scratch when I upgrade, as it allows me to clean out all the garbage that I didn’t need in the first place. So I’ve compiled a list of all the best free applications I like to have installed on my Mac. Must [...]