Advanced Tips & Tricks
How to Redirect a Page or Website Using htaccess
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If a page on your website no longer exists and you want to redirect it to a new page or website, you can use the dot htaccess file to redirect visitors. Redirect from a page/directory to another domain or the main domain: Redirect from a specific page to a domain:RewriteEngine onRedirect 301 /mypage.html http://example.com Redirect from one page to another page:#Redirect from a page/directory to another pageRedirect 301 /oldpage.html /newpage.html Whenever you open a URL such as example.com/oldpage.html, it will redirect you to example.com/newpage.html.
How to Create a User-friendly URL Using htaccess
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If your website is using a long URL such as example.com/files/folder/sitemap.html, you can change it to “example.com/sitemap” using htaccess. Modify this line according to your needs, and then add this code to your htaccess file. RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^sitemap/$ /files/folder/sitemap.html [L]
How to Restrict Access to Directories by IP Address
Last Updated: October 28, 2024To secure your admin area from hackers, you should only allow access to your admin directory from selected IP addresses. You can create a dot htaccess file in the directory where you want to restrict access to specific IP addresses. For example, if you have a WordPress blog installed on your main directory and you log in via example.com/wp-admin, you should create an htaccess file in /wp-admin/.htaccess and put the following code into it. Please, don’t forget to replace the allowed IP address with your IP address. order deny, allow deny from all allow from YOUR-IP-ADDRESS-HERE Replace the Your-IP-Address-Here text with your IP address. You can test this by accessing the wp-admin directory from another IP address, not mentioned in your htaccess file.
How to Ban Any IP Address via htaccess
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If you want to block an IP Address, you can add the below lines to your htaccess file. order allow, deny deny from IP-ADDRESS allow from all Replace IP-ADDRESS with the IP you want to block.
How to Redirect a Page to Another Page or Website Using htaccess
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If a page on your website no longer exists and you want to redirect it to a new page or website, you can use the dot htaccess file to redirect visitors. Redirect from a page/directory to another domain or the main domain: Redirect from a specific page to a domain:RewriteEngine onRedirect 301 /mypage.html http://example.com Redirect from one page to another page:#Redirect from a page/directory to another pageRedirect 301 /oldpage.html /newpage.html Whenever you open a URL such as example.com/oldpage.html, it will redirect you to example.com/newpage.html.
How to Disable Directory Browsing Using the htaccess Rule
Last Updated: October 28, 2024For security purposes, you should disable directory browsing on your website so no one can see the files/directories of your website. You can disable Directory Browsing by adding the below line to your dot htaccess file. Options -Indexes
How to Protect the htaccess File
Last Updated: October 28, 2024You can prevent unauthorized access to your htaccess file by adding this rule to the file: # .htaccess protection order allow, deny deny from all satisfy all
How to Create a User-friendly URL Using htaccess
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If your website is using a long URL such as example.com/files/folder/sitemap.html, you can change it to “example.com/sitemap” using htaccess. Modify this line according to your needs, and then add this code to your htaccess file. RewriteEngine onRewriteRule ^sitemap/$ /files/folder/sitemap.html [L]
How to Disable Directory Browsing Using the htaccess Rule
Last Updated: October 28, 2024For security purposes, you should disable directory browsing on your website so no one can see the files/directories of your website. You can disable Directory Browsing by adding the below line to your dot htaccess file. Options -Indexes
How to Block Any IP Address via an htaccess Rule
Last Updated: October 28, 2024If you want to block an IP Address, you can add the below lines to your htaccess file. order allow, deny deny from IP-ADDRESS allow from all Replace IP-ADDRESS with the IP you want to block.
How to Protect Your htaccess File
Last Updated: October 28, 2024You can prevent unauthorized access to your htaccess file by adding this rule to the file: # .htaccess protection order allow, deny deny from all satisfy all