The domain company that you talked to may have done a poor job of explaining how domains work. Domain names don’t refer to specific ports. They just refer to IP addresses. The client can look up a hostname to get the IP address which the client should connect to, but the client has to figure … Read more
Do this: RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.php RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
There are a few Lua-based webservers around: Xavante seems to be the most popular. Haserl is nice and small. Nanoki is not strictly a webserver, but a nice small pure Lua wiki engine worth studying. As for the Lua wikies, there is also Sputnik, which is fully featured and very flexible, but is a bit … Read more
Some RewriteRule should handle that quite well. In a Drupal configuration file I found: # AddEncoding allows you to have certain browsers uncompress information on the fly. AddEncoding gzip .gz #Serve gzip compressed CSS files if they exist and the client accepts gzip. RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.gz -s RewriteRule ^(.*)\.css $1\.css\.gz [QSA] # Serve … Read more
If you’re using MAMP 3 or 4 the instructions are slightly different. Here’s what worked for me, starting from a fresh install of MAMP 3.0.5 on Mavericks without Pro. Update: Still works on Yosemite after fixing Apache as described in this answer. Further Update: Comments suggest this still works at least through MAMP 5.4. Generate … Read more
TL;DR Why do so many websites use the “query string” method, instead of just letting the last-modified header do its work? Changing the query string changes the url, ensuring content is “fresh”. Should I unset the Last-modified header and just work with query strings? No. Though that’s almost the right answer. There are three basic … Read more
PHP has a configuration directive intended exactly for that, called display_errors. Like any other configuration setting, it’s best to be set in php.ini. But in case you don’t have access to this file, you can set it right in PHP code to Hide All Errors: ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0); to Show All Errors: ini_set(‘display_errors’, 1); While ERROR_REPORTING … Read more
You can use the RewriteRule flag S|skip to tie multiples RewriteRules to a single RewriteCond (or to a set of RewriteConds). Here is an example that applies one Cond to three Rules: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mydomain.com$ # skip rules if NOT within domain – only way to tie multiple rules to one cond RewriteRule .? – … Read more
The new version 2.4 of Apache HTTP Server has a module called mod_proxy_wstunnel which is a websocket proxy. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy_wstunnel.html
Using SetEnvIf, you can create a variable when the request starts with some path, then use the Satisfy Any directive to avoid having to login. # set an environtment variable “noauth” if the request starts with “/callbacks/” SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/callbacks/ noauth=1 # the auth block AuthName “Please login.” AuthGroupFile /dev/null AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /xxx/.htpasswd # … Read more