htaccess

This is how you can redirect a former indexed path without languagre prefix to a new path with language prefix. In this case i had my old path look like "[domain]/konwledge/[title]" and the new site had a language prefix so the new path should look like "[domain]/en/konwledge/[title]". Add the following in the .htaccess files within the IfModule mod_rewrite.c-tag and modify it.

RedirectMatch 301 ^/knowledge/(.+)$ http://www.zimplicit.se/en/knowledge/$1

How to redirect a complete folder or path to a new site using .htaccess and code 301. 301 means "Moved Permanently" and you should use it if that is the case. In my case I had by misstake let Google index 17.000 urls and I needed a quick way to redirect to the new site but keep the articles path, so I did this:

This is how you create a simple password protection to your site. Very useful when your are in developing mode and want no one to see even the front page.

First add the following to your .htaccess file. It has to be the full path to the password file.

For make it easy measuring traffic or with sessions cookies for login, you can redirect all calls for example.com to www.example.com by adding the following script to a .htaccess file in root of your site.

Probably you already have an .htaccess file and you just have to uncomment the code and change example.com to your domainname.

How do I make a sub directory (or sub folder) act as the public_html for your main domain?


# .htaccess main domain to subdirectory redirect
# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.
# Do not change this line.
RewriteEngine on
# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?yourmaindomain.com$
# Change 'subdirectory' to be the directory you will use for your main domain.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/subdirect