htaccess file

How to use .htaccess

The .htaccess file is an extremely powerful and efficient means of performing configuration on your Website. .htaccess is typically used for blocking visitors, rewriting URLs, cache control, customizing error messages and access control (security) among other things. One of the best ‘quick guides’ to .htaccess is provided by ‘the jackol’s den’ who has kindly made [...]

Change your WordPress Permalinks

In the good old days, when changing your Permalink structure (i.e. how the URLs look) in WordPress you’d need to amend the Apache .htaccess file (or equivalent) to cater for the appropriate 301 redirects (a 301 redirect states that the URL has permanently been moved to a different address which is provided). Human understandable URLs [...]