The Problem: If your webhost uses litespeed to speed up your websites, an unintended side effect is it caches MySQL SELECT queries. In my experience it only cached them for 45-60 seconds, but a one minute delay after you add data (like a shopping cart) is not good! The Test: First of all run … Read more
.htaccess is your friend Using .htaccess to block directory listings, specify a home page and do custom error handling are all explained below. If you’d like some background on .htaccess or see examples of the rewrite rule: Overview of .htaccess Rewrite Rule with examples and cheat sheet Block Directory Listing Decent web hosts have this … Read more
What is .htaccess? .htaccess is a file in the root folder of your www (or publichtml) folder on your web server. It’s a configuration file for your web server (usually Apache) with information on redirects and some security settings. That’s a weird file name? Yep. It is not htaccess.txt, it is simply .htaccess It … Read more
Hints for using .htaccess to redirect file, folders and queries If you’d like some background on .htaccess read this first: Overview of .htaccess OK, let’s dive in… Ensure once (and only once) you have this in your .htaccess file at the top: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / Simple URL Redirect Simple redirect from one url (file) to … Read more