Category: Apache

clean url with html file

We have site in plain html file and some time we want to use clean URLs or Pretty URLs for our site.
Clean URLs are in demand becasue of Seach Engine Optimiztion.

You can achive the Clean URLs. With not doing rework of building site.

Requirement:
Apache Server.
mod_rewrite engine need to on.

Create .htaccess file
and copy paste the following lines

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f

#code for About us Page
RewriteRule ^about-us(\d+)*$ ./about.html$1

Put this file into your root folder.

What this will do?

For example I want

www.example.com/about.html to look like www.example.com/about-us/

setting up basic authentication apache

Two months back, we got the requirement of do basic authentication for testing site server. We given steps and code for setting up basic authentication apache. So Google or any search engine site cannot index the testing sites.

setting up basic authentication apache

We are using Fedora as Operating System and Apache as web server on our testing machine. We hosted more than fifteen test sites on that server.

I successfully created basic authentication on server.

Use following commands:

#su

#ROOT_PASSWORD

#vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

in that file you need to insert following lines.

AccessFileName htaccess.acl .htaccess

# htpasswd -c /home/USER/pwd.txt USER(you can define your user of stystem.)

New password: mypassword
Re-type new password: mypassword

That sit. Your username and password is set for popup.

Now you need to only create or update your .htaccess  file. You can create or find .htaccess file in your project folder.

Use or copy and paste following code in that file: (.htaccess file)

AuthUserFile /home/USER/pwd.txt
AuthName "Protected"
AuthType Basic


require valid-user

I following exact method for my server and projects. It is working perfect for me.