Apache is an open source web server that runs on a variety of platforms including various UNIX flavours, Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows. It is used to run more websites on the Internet than any other webserver and has done so since 1996, as reported by the Netcraft Webserver Survey. The Apache webserver can be downloaded in binary and source form from the Apache website.
The X-Frame-Options response header this morning; it can be used to prevent your website being rendered within a <frame>, <iframe> or <object>. There are different options to either deny access to all websites, allow from the same origin only, and to allow from a specific origin.
When a directory is password protected with Apache either with a .htaccess file or in the main Apache configuration, all subdirectories are also password protected. This post shows how to remove password protection from a subdirectory and from an individual file.
This post shows how to password protect a website with an Apache .htaccess file, but still allow access for a particular user-agent.
When redirecting all requests from one domain name to another one when the URL structure has changed, you’ll ideally want to craft redirects from the old scheme to the new one. Sometimes this is too complex or messy, and it’s easiest to just redirect everything to the new domain’s homepage. If they have query strings at the end of the URL then Apache’s RedirectMatch and RewriteRule with automatically include the query string in the redirect location. This post shows how to solve this.
Apache 2.x keeps child processes alive by creating internal connections which appear in the log files as "internal dummy connection" on the IP address ::1 or 127.0.0.1. If you ever monitor Apache log files you’ll see a lot of these in the log files. This post shows how to prevent logging for these two IP addresses so your log files won’t get filled up with these.
This is a summary post containing a list of the articles from this blog containing recipes, tips and tricks for using Apache’s .htaccess files.