Richard Castera » htaccess http://www.richardcastera.com Application Developer/Designer Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:02:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disallow hotlinking while allowing requests from robots.txt and favicons http://www.richardcastera.com/2009/10/19/disallow-hotlinking-while-allowing-requests-from-robots-txt-and-favicons/ http://www.richardcastera.com/2009/10/19/disallow-hotlinking-while-allowing-requests-from-robots-txt-and-favicons/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:40:04 +0000 Richard http://www.richardcastera.com/?p=879 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]
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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!

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [NC,R,L]
]]> http://www.richardcastera.com/2009/09/14/how-to-redirect-all-http-port-80-requests-to-https-port-443-with-htaccess/feed/ 4 Adding 301 redirects using htaccess http://www.richardcastera.com/2008/06/07/adding-301-redirects-using-htaccess/ http://www.richardcastera.com/2008/06/07/adding-301-redirects-using-htaccess/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:03:02 +0000 Richard http://www.richardcastera.com/?p=7 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:

  1. Open up notepad or any other text editor and copy and paste the commands below.
  2. Change (yourdomain) to your domain name.
  3. Save the file with this name: (.htaccess). There is no file name.
  4. 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]
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