favorite htaccess examples

[Iris]

When site is "Under Construction"

This lets google crawl, lets me access (1.1.1.1) without a password, and lets access from anyone WITH a password. It also allows for XHTML and CSS validation through w3.org

 

 

 

AuthName "Under Development"

AuthUserFile /home/askapache.com/.htpasswd

AuthType basic

Require valid-user

Order Deny,AllowDeny from all

Allow from 1.1.1.1 w3.org googlebot.com google.com google-analytics.com

Satisfy Any

 

 

Redirect everyone to different site except 1 IP

 

 

ErrorDocument 403 http://www.htaccesselite.com

Order deny,allow

Deny from all

Allow from 1.1.1.1

 

 

Redirect all but 1 IP to different site, using mod_rewrite

 

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^1\.1\.1\.1

RewriteRule .* http://www.htaccesselite.com [R=302,L]

 

 

Redirect Everyone but you to alternate page on your server.

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^1\.1\.1\.1

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/temporary-offline\.html$

RewriteRule .* /temporary-offline.html [R=302,L]

Edited February 24, 2008 by Iris

[Iris]

Set the Timezone of the server

 

SetEnv TZ America/Indianapolis

[Iris]

Turn off the ServerSignature

Turns off the address part of your Server Signature in Apache generated Error Documents.

 

 

ServerSignature Off

[Iris]

Force File download, do not display/open in browser

In your HTML directly link to the file.. <a href="/movies/mov1.avi">Download Movie1</a>. Now you will get a pop-up box asking whether you want to save the file or open it.

 

 

AddType application/octet-stream .avi

AddType application/octet-stream .mpg

AddType application/octet-stream .mov

AddType application/octet-stream .pdf

 

Process .gif files with a cgi script

When a user requests a .gif file (image/gif) the server instead of serving that .gif file it serves the results of /cgi-bin/filter.cgi

 

 

Action image/gif /cgi-bin/filter.cgi

 

Process Requests with certain Request Methods

Article: Request Methods

 

 

Script PUT /cgi-bin/upload.cgi

Script HEAD /cgi-bin/head-robot.cgi

 

Make any file be a certain filetype

Makes image.gif, blah.html, index.cgi all act as php

 

 

ForceType application/x-httpd-php

 

Use IfModule for robustness

Basically if the module is found it will perform the code inside the tag.

 

 

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

# any mod_rewrite directives here

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

# any Expires Directives go here

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

# any Header directives go here

</IfModule>