Comments on: Ultimate Htaccess Tutorial for .htaccess files

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:29:38 +0000

This may seem like a very strange request, but i have know idea where to start in writing my htaccess file.

When i installed my version of WP about 3 months ago, i was unable to find my htaccess file, and i have looked many time and never found it. Came to the conclusion that their wasnt one. Did i have to write one myself?

Could you suggest some sites that give descriptions and code on how to effectively write a good secure htaccess file.
I will continue to read through ur site which will def. give me some ideas

Ben

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:54:12 +0000

Hi, Great page, but in your full .htaccess directives list you have included the following:

Directory
Location
ErrorLog

I have found that in Apache 2.2 these directives are not allowed.

By: Bernhard

Bernhard — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:43:12 +0000

Very nice tutorial. Just one note: Since Apache 2.0.49 it's possible to use wildcards for the mime type in ExpiresByType, see (search for PR#7991). I tested it with Apache 2.2.9 and it works fine. In my .htaccess I set the expiration time for all images with:

ExpiresByType image/* A2592000

By: Jey Jey

Jey Jey — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:13:33 +0000

Great resource, Thanks for sharing this great knowledge

By: Martin Shortpants

Martin Shortpants — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:30:20 +0000

Probably not the best place to ask this, but don’t where else.

Is there an htaccess comand(s) that would take ever call to any occurrence of wp-content\themes and make it read from \allthemes

The idea is to get several wp installs on same server to use common directories for their themes and plugins.

I have no success with ln -s symlinks but htaccess rewrites all seem fine.

(p.s. my odd email addie is legit)

By: jay

jay — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:35:44 +0000

help!

i can rewrite URLs just fine, but none of the images/css/js works anymore!

i just get a plain-html view of the new target page

here is the .htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^somedirectory/page17 /index.php?id=17

By: Sushant

Sushant — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:06:14 +0000

This a really informative post. Directory Protection with .htaccess files was all that i wanted.

Thank You

By: Sam Lavoie

Sam Lavoie — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:20:11 +0000

I always found myself getting back to this .htaccess tutorial and guide. Definitly the best and most complete one!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:05:45 +0000

I realize this might be an older post, but I need some serious help. I have Wordpress MU installed in my root directory and Moodle installed in a subdirectory. These are interfering with each other. I’m getting Internal Server Errors in the Moodle install. I’m pretty sure it can be fixed with some .htaccess scripting. There is not a .htaccess file in the Moodle directory. I copied the .htaccess from the root directory over to the Moodle directory, but it didn’t do anything. Here’s what’s in the root directory. Is it possible the php.ini is causing the errors?

# Use PHP5 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php
 
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
 
#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]
 
# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]
 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
 
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
 
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off

By: Mia

Mia — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:33:01 +0000

Your site is absolutely great! I have been working on this for a week and I finally understand this. I do not have a directory index and I haven’t figured out quite how to do this yet. My webhosting site is Linux based so the code has to be either in Perl or Python.

I can access the .htaccess files but I can get past the first step of creating the path.

Please help.

Mia