.htaccess files
April 13, 2007 · Print This Article
One of the files that causes new webmaster a lot of problems is .htaccess files. The very first thing about this file that causes problem is the fact that its a hidden files, you need to enable a feature in your FTP browser asking it to show absolutely all files on your web server to see a .htaccess. Once you have conquered issues then you are confronted with lots of codes that does not make any sense at first.
At UK Webmaster forums programming section, a very nice beginners introduction to this was created by one of the admins, some text from the tutorial follows, the full tutorial can be read here.
You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them.
Whether you want it or not, creating a good web based application these days involves editing and creating these little buggers.
And they are ugly little brutes. If you want to really offend someone tell him: “You look like a .htaccess file!” That should do the trick.
But all in all, you have to tame them in order to get some results and this is where this thread steps in.
I’ll try to do my best in explaining possibilities of these files and things you can do with them in a friendly way.
Now, I’ve seen hundreds of .htaccess tutorials on the net and some are OK, some look like they were written for people with 3 brains and 7 microprocessors in the head. But most of them fail describing what a .htaccess file is. Sometimes even I’m not sure what they are but I’ll try to explain.
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