htaccess tutorials

htaccess is used for many purposes here are few

• Managing custom error pages
• Resolving canonical issues
• Setting up default page for a website

Here are the set of instructions to manage custom error pages. 

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

ErrorDocument 401 /401.html

ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

ErrorDocument 403 /403.html

ErrorDocument 400 /400.html

404.html, is a manually created page to display custom error page when visitor tries to browse invalid file

Rewriting www website to non www website

RewriteEngine on

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^websitename\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.websitename.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index

RewriteRule ^(.*)index$ http://www. websitename.com/$1 [R=301,L]

To set default page for website

DirectoryIndex first.html index.html index.cgi index.php

In above syntax, server initially looks for first.html if not available, looks for index.html,index.cgi and if not available, looks for index.php