Apache Archives - Sys Admin Guides, How To's, etc by Marios Maravelias

301 Page Redirects using PHP and .htaccess

Jun

4

2007

During the life of a website, its quite common for pages to move around or to ‘re-structure’ your site’s files and folders. However, you can come across issues when people linking to your page go to their ‘stale’ bookmark of your site, and find that page is missing – in fact, they’ll get a ‘404 ...

How to block libwww-perl under Apache web server

May

31

2007

Use mod_rewrite and .htaccess file to block user agent libwww-perl. Open your .htaccess file and add rule as follows:

Block LIBWWW-PERL and web addresses to protect your site from botnets

May

31

2007

Not only do I block all accesses from libwww-perl, I also log what they were looking for which turns up an amazing amount of botnet hits on a daily basis just randomly hitting websites trying to find a way inside.

Optimize and Tweak High-Traffic Servers (apache)

May

29

2007

Focus: Linux, Apache 1.3+, [PHP], [MySQL] Notes: Use at your own risk. Summary If you are reaching the limits of your server running Apache serving a lot of dynamic content, you can either spend thousands on new equipment or reduce bloat to increase your server capacity by anywhere from 2 to 10 times. This article ...

Lock a folder with .htaccess

Apr

28

2007

To do this you have to create a username/password file, and a .htaccess