Custom Error Messages .htaccess / Error Handling
It is a fact of life that if you run a busy regularly-updated website you'll also move your files about quite often. Whilst this may not pose a problem for you initially, search engines take a while to process dead links, and during this time you may be losing visitors who go to your old pages and get the standard 'page not found' error. You can prevent this by customizing your error pages, sending your visitors instead to a nice formatted webpage that politely tells them to keep on looking using your new navigation structure.
iPasswd - .htpasswd password generator .htaccess / Password Protection
iPasswd is an online password generation tool for .htpasswd files. These files store a username and password combination (one per line of the file) which is used with .htaccess Basic Authentication. iPasswd also supports MD5 passwords, used in Digest Authentication.
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.
Using .htaccess Files with Apache .htaccess / General Guides
This article describes how the Webmaster can extend permission to tailor Apache's behaviour to users, allowing them to have some control over how it handles their own sub-areas of its total Web-space.
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.
htaccess: Stopping "page not found" errors .htaccess / Error Handling
How to use an .htaccess file to automatically redirect requests for files that may have moved following a site redesign. This really useful technique will stop your users getting "page not found" errors after bookmarking pages on your site that no longer exist. Also solves problem of search engines that haven't caught up yet with your new site structure.
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.