Use the following .htpasswd generator to secure your Apache web directories. Your browser does not support IFRAMES. Please view the generator at http://edrackham.com/tutorials/online-htpasswd-generator/ Make sure you have a .htaccess and .htpasswd file in the directory you want to secure, then add the entries once you’ve generated your password.
Custom Error Documents Creating custom documents gives your site a more professional look, as not only are you providing a ‘net’ to catch unsuspecting visitors when they follow a bad link and such like, but they also allow you to customise the style of the page so you can maintain your basic site design by adding HTML. # custom error documents ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.php ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.php ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php [...]
Have you seen those websites such as Digg and SVP that use fancy URLs such as http://domain.com/page_content? Yeah, sure this could be nearly achieved by simply renaming your pages to something like page_content.htm – but that would result in you having to change every page on your site to a suitably written filename, as well as relying on static pages. I’m going to attempt to demonstrate just how easy it [...]