Web Developers Must Use It: .htaccess

A lot of sites everyday, and in most of them wont use this important tool.

.htaccess is a simple and powerfull tool that can be used to redirect error pages, deny users by ip, password protection and more...
Here is a simple example code:

code:


DirectoryIndex index.php



ErrorDocument 404 http://site.com/erro.php?id=404

ErrorDocument 502 http://site.com/erro.php?id=502

ErrorDocument 503 http://site.com/erro.php?id=503

ErrorDocument 501 http://site.com/erro.php?id=501 

.htaccess is the file extension. It is not file.htaccess or something.htaccess, it is simply named .htaccess
Remember always to upload the file as ASCII.

Directory Index is the file that ll be called when you open a a folder page. You can put only one like

code:
DirectoryIndex index.php

or more like

code:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.shtml

For me the more important tool is Error Pages.
To use it, just put:

code:
ErrorDocument ERROR PAGE

The PAGE is the document error default page.
The error is the number of the possible error:
Here the possibles Errors:

code:


Successful Client Requests

200 OK

201 Created

202 Accepted

203 Non-Authorative Information

204 No Content

205 Reset Content

206 Partial Content

Client Request Redirected

300 Multiple Choices

301 Moved Permanently

302 Moved Temporarily

303 See Other

304 Not Modified

305 Use Proxy

Client Request Errors

400 Bad Request

401 Authorization Required

402 Payment Required (not used yet)

403 Forbidden

404 Not Found

405 Method Not Allowed

406 Not Acceptable (encoding)

407 Proxy Authentication Required   

408 Request Timed Out

409 Conflicting Request

410 Gone

411 Content Length Required

412 Precondition Failed

413 Request Entity Too Long

414 Request URI Too Long

415 Unsupported Media Type

Server Errors

500 Internal Server Error

501 Not Implemented

502 Bad Gateway   

503 Service Unavailable   

504 Gateway Timeout   

505 HTTP Version Not Supported 

You can only upload a .htaccess for your server in root www folder that error pages ll be up and all.
EX: You set up a error page 404 for site.com/404.htm
When someone try to open any file or folder that is under www.site.com/ will be redirected to www.site.com/404.htm
Like www.site.com/ada/ada/da
Like www.site.com/adadadada.php

I hope this helps all.

Its a simple tutuorial, just for those that dont know it.

More help open:
http://www.freewebmasterhelp.com/tutorials/htaccess/
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/htaccess.shtml

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