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You may be able to access some websites using both www and without www as part of the URL. For example http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com. It is upto the webmaster to decide which one to use. But there are some significance of using only one version. The use of “www” as a sub domain name (prefix)…
If you host your website or wordpress blog on Apache web server you can disable Apache directory listing by using htaccess directory listing options. Usually Apache Web Server display directory content if there is no index files in that directory. Let us discuss how to disable directory browsing by adding commands in htaccess file. Before…
Many bloggers and website owners face duplicate content problem because of two query strings in the URL’s. The query strings “?ftr=vidpgurl” and “?replytocom” results in duplicate contents. These query string are added dynamically. If you use WordPress as blogging platform then the query string “?replytocom” will appear. This is added dynamically to handle comments. We…
How to prevent hotlinking to files like images , scripts and CSS is one of the challenges faced by website and blog owners. Image hotlinking is the most common hotlinking though hotlinking to scripts, CSS or any other file types are not uncommon. What is Hotlinking? Hot-linking is the process of linking an image or…
Caching files in browser or proxy rather than requesting every time reduces the network traffic between the server, the client.
Usually not everyone has control over their own server configuration file, but sometimes they do have .htaccess file accessibility. You can do efficient caching using the Apache .htaccess file.You need to configure few lines of commands in the .htaccess file instructing the server to handle the caching of different types of files.
File Caching is an important step to Speed Up Website and Web Page Load Time. There are many factors influence the speed of your website. The faster your website or web page loads the more happier your readers will be. There are many different and important things required to do to make your website faster….
In Web servers most commonly Apache Web server .htaccess (hypertext access) is a a directory-level configuration file.This is most common in Apache Web Server and is used on more than 50% of the sites on the internet.
.htaccess file allows for decentralized management of web server configuration.
.htaccess (hypertext access) is a a directory-level configuration file in several web servers.This is most common in Apache Web Server. .htaccess file allows for decentralized management of web server configuration. The directives in the .htaccess file apply to the current directory, and to all sub-directories. .htaccess files are read on every request.Changes made in these…
One of the common and popular way to redirect your visitors is to use an .htaccess redirect. Before a page is served to the browser the server checks first for an .htaccess file and the visitors will be redirected to the new page.301 redirect is the most efficient method for webpage redirection.Also this method is a Search Engine Friendly method for web page redirection.
If you do not have custom files for handling error conditions and error codes like 404 ,500 and 401 etc ,the user experience would not be great. No one prefer to see the “404 Not Found” on their browser.The website developer should handle these scenarios.
You can do this by specifying the custom error document in your server web server configuration files.