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Apache, My Thoughts, News, Web Resources | No Comments | October 19, 2009

Disallow hotlinking while allowing requests from robots.txt and favicons

We all hate Leechers. Here’s how to stop them in their tracks from stealing your images and your bandwidth!

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(^/robots\.txt|\.ico)$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?example.com(/)?.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|bmp|pdf)$ [F,L]

Apache, News, Web Resources | 2 Comments | October 10, 2009

Creating an .htaccess file on Windows

Everyone who has tried creating a .htaccess on windows knows that Windows Explorer does not accept the ‘.’ character as the first character of a file. For most of you this may be old stuff, but for the newbies, the quick way to create a file that starts with a ‘.’ is actually pretty simple.

Open notepad and save the document with file name .htaccess with the ‘save as type’ set to ‘All Files’; or save the document with file name as “.htaccess” including the quotes. Hope this helps someone!

Apache, News, Web Resources | 4 Comments | September 14, 2009

htaccess – How to redirect all http (port 80) requests to https (port 443)

Sometimes you may need to redirect http requests on port 80 to (https) on port 443. This can easily be accomplished with .htaccess.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [NC,R,L]

Apache, SEO, Wordpress | No Comments | June 7, 2008

Adding 301 redirects using htaccess

It’s easy adding 301 redirects to your website using Apache’s htaccess. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for web page redirection. It’s not difficult to implement and will preserve your search engine rankings as well.

So, basically how this works is when someone tries to access your website without the (www), it will redirect the URL to your website with the www.

To implement this for your website follow these instructions:

Open up notepad or any other text editor and copy and paste the commands below.
Change (yourdomain) to your domain name.
Save the file with this name: (.htaccess). There is no file name.
Upload it to the root directory of your website.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Richard Castera

Posts Tagged ‘htaccess’

Disallow hotlinking while allowing requests from robots.txt and favicons

Creating an .htaccess file on Windows

htaccess – How to redirect all http (port 80) requests to https (port 443)

Adding 301 redirects using htaccess

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