What is .htaccess for? .htaccess syntax

Forbidding access:

Forbidding all files Allow access from a certain IP address Forbid access from a certain IP address Forbidding a group of files by mask Forbidding a particular file

Setting a password:

Password for a directory Password for one file only Password for a group […]

Wondering how blogger website gives you a subdomain from the blogspot.com domain based on your username of your choice? Well, the concept for this tutorial is somewhat related with it on setting up unlimited subdomains. I’m not sure how do they do it because it could be done by any script, hardcoded or not, thru […]

Minimize HTTP Requests

tag: content

80% of the end-user response time is spent on the front-end. Most of this time is tied up in downloading all the components in the page: images, stylesheets, scripts, Flash, etc. Reducing the number of components in turn reduces the number of HTTP requests required to render the page. This […]

am using mod rewrite to mask the context root of my application. For example,

RewriteRule ^/directory/(.*) balancer://appcluster/directory/$1 [P]

The appcluster looks like this:

<Proxy balancer://appcluster> BalancerMember http://localhost:8080/App route=app_01 keepalive=On loadfactor=1 ttl=300 min=3 smax=5 max=15 ProxySet lbmethod=byrequests stickysession=JSESSIONID|jsessionid timeout=120 nofailover=On </Proxy>

Do I need to use ProxyPassReverse at all? I used to use it because my […]

Url redirection in Apache web server.

Here is a small example of url redirection in Apache using proxypass. I used this when I was using Apache as proxy to Apache tomcat using mod_jk.

Example: you want to forward www.yourdomain.come/abc to www.yourdomain.com/linux/commands/abc

Here is how you can do it. Open httpd.conf in your favorite editor. Add […]