htaccess Hacks

Ha! I like this one. In fact, I just saw some guys charging like $10 for a plugin that does what this code does. You can use it to block people from linking to images on your website but if they do, you can instead show an image that says your website name on it…

This one is useful for SEO purposes – I found it when searching for “htaccess 404 redirect to homepage” and it works great. NOTE: I used to use this a lot, but it does seem better now to not send these redirects to the home page, but instead just show a really good 404 page…

This is a .htaccess rule to use to make sure that “index.php” doesn’t show up in URLs (for SEO reasons). You want to do this so that you have just one URL pointing to a page instead of two URLs (one with index.php and one without) so that your website doesn’t have 2 pages with…

And here’s one I’m adding since it’s so useful… redirecting everything from an old domain to a new domain (not just the home page) so that you don’t lose traffic from bookmarks, links and search engine results. This one’s important to have on hand. You’ll use this if you change domain names or more content…

Here is how to make sure other sites don’t link to your images from their site using a .htaccess file (I’ve had reports of this not working perfectly): CopyRewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www.)?yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|swf|flv|png)$ /feed/ [R=302,L] You need to hard-code your domain name into this one. This .htaccess…

Post Use this code for forcing HTTPS (SSL) on multi-site setups where you’re using multiple domain names (using a .htaccess file). This is used if you only want SSL on some of those websites – versus all of them (but since HTTPS is good for all sites, I don’t know why you’d need this anymore…

Use this code in your .htaccess file to force every page on your website to use SSL (HTTPS). This is good for SEO and it’s how Google wants every website to load now. CopyRewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R=301,L] This code also works but you need to put your domain name in…

Force the Root Domain for Your Website using .htaccess This one is useful since some websites want to have a shorter URL (better for SEO). This will redirect the www subdomain to domain root (non-www). This is for when you want the non-www version of their domain to be the main domain name. People might…

For “www” With .htaccess Require the “www” in a domain (you want to do this so that Google or other search engines don’t think there are 2 versions of your site out there – the www version (like “www.yourdomain.com”) and the non-www version. This is done for SEO reasons: CopyRewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www..* RewriteCond…