Fun with .htaccess .htaccess / General Guides
The .htaccess is a simple ASCII text file placed in your www directory or in a subdirectory of your www directory. You can create or edit this file in any text editor (such as NotePad) and then upload it to the directory for which you want to modify the settings.
What they are/How to use them .htaccess / General Guides
.htaccess files (or "distributed configuration files") provide a way to make configuration changes on a per-directory basis. A file, containing one or more configuration directives, is placed in a particular document directory, and the directives apply to that directory, and all subdirectories thereof.
Custom 404 Page Not Found Pages .htaccess / Error Handling
A cool trick you can entice your visitors with is custom error pages. When a page on your server is not found, your visitors will normally see their browser's default message such as "Page cannot be displayed." If you used a custom error page though, your visitors will see your page.
Popular Web Tricks .htaccess / General Guides
A really cool feature that web designers overlook is the use of the .htaccess file. Simply put, whenever you see a custom error page (404, 403, etc.), use server side includes, restrict IPs, load a default page, or do any host of events invisible to the user, you are probably going to be using .htaccess.
Editing .htaccess .htaccess / General Guides
.htaccess is an abbreviation for Hypertext Access; the default name for Apache's directory-level configuration file, which enables customizing the configuration directives i.e. the parameters defined in the main configuration file. However, the configuration directives need to be in .htaccess context and the user needs appropriate permissions to edit the file. The directives apply to the documents in all the directories and the subdirectories where the .htaccess file remains located. However, the other .htaccess files in the subdirectories may alter or nullify the effects of the ones in the parent directories.
Customizable 404 pages .htaccess / Error Handling
A 404 error page comes up whenever someone clicks a broken link, or goes to a URL on your site that doesn't exist. To make a custom 404 error page you must first make a page that you want to be your 404 error page. It can have images, CSS, a message about the error, etc.
How to Create your own Custom 404 pages .htaccess / Error Handling
In this tutorial you will learn how to create your own custom 404 pages, and yes you can make it very cool with all your design abilities, it does not have to look so dull anymore with big 404 error on the page. And don't forget to put a link back to your main page, so that if the user come across your 404 page he/she can click the link and go to your main page.
Introduction .htaccess / General Guides
A text file called .htaccess can be used to control web server (Apache) behavior for your web site. The other sections of this .htaccess tutorial deal with actual commands (called directives) which can be used.
It configures settings for the web server per directory (the one it is placed in) and subdirectories under it.
Information about the .htaccess file .htaccess / General Guides
The .htaccess file is an ordinary text file that you can create using Notepad or any text editor and ftp it into your Web root directory. This file will contain the configuration statements (commands) to customize the Apache Web server software for your Web site.
Introduction to .htaccess .htaccess / General Guides
.Htaccess is a small text file that control configuration aspects of an Apache web server. Most people are familiar with the .htaccess file in relation with the ability to restrict access to a directory via password protection. However, .htaccess can do a lot more than password protection. .Htaccess is an extremely powerful configuration tool that can customize the way your web site behaves and how your web server handles requests.
Control File Defaults in Apache .htaccess / General Guides
Apache allows webmasters to create special files called .htaccess and .htpasswd with which access control and a range of defaults can be managed. This tutorial will first of all show you how to create a .htaccess file, and then how to use it to control error reporting, default filenames, and password protection.