How To Enable / Use .htaccess / Nice permalinks in Apache Web Server on Windows

October 30th, 2006 XDForum (example: Anaconda Forum) is a nice basic forum software which works seamlessly with WordPress blogs (download our free theme and plugins). Unfortunately it works out-of-the-box with default permalinks only.

July 10th, 2008 We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were: We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.

October 23rd, 2006 Open up conf/settings.php and add this line: $Configuration['URL_BUILDING_METHOD'] = 'mod_rewrite'; Believe me, that's all you need to do. Ain't that easy? Note: I am assuming that you are using Apache HTTPD Web Server with mod_rewrite enabled.

July 28th, 2006 This technique will only work if your Apache server has PHP enabled (how to test php support in apache http server) and .htaccess enabled. In the root directory of your html files create a file named .htaccess.

February 8th, 2007 Few tips for Translator Plugin Pro users: 1. Use a caching engine.

March 16th, 2008 Apache HTTPD servers are configured by default to display directory listing, when index files like index.htm or index.html of index.php etc. are not present in the directory.

January 14th, 2007 A very simple way to execute HTML files is by telling the server to parse html files for SSI commands. To do it simply add the following lines to your .htaccess file: AddType text/html .html AddHandler server-parsed .html This has the downside of processing all the html files in that directory and its subdirectories.

June 1st, 2006 The common symptom of the problem is that Apache web server suddenly fails to load as a service (on windows) or even from command line. The error message from log is as follows: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate -2103443420 bytes [Thu Jun 01 23:57:21 2006] [crit] master_main: create child process failed.

January 24th, 2008 You have two options. Either you tear your (remaining) hair looking for solution on the web and trying different changes to Apache Web Server or Explorer even try magic incantations (alohamora?).

November 9th, 2005 I was in Drudge report when I saw an advertisement spot occupied by advertisement giant TribalFusion filled with Apache error message instead. The error message was rather interesting.

October 19th, 2005 With its latest release of the software, Apache announced that Geronimo 1.0-M5 Java application server has passed all the compatibility tests and has gained official J2EE1.4 certification of the Java server software standard. Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 is completely integrated with the Tomcat Web server and includes a developer preview of web management console submitted to Apache by IBM.

May 4th, 2005 The simplest configuration is described. It assumes you already have Tomcat 5.5 and Apache 2.0 (instructions for Apache 1.3 is also provided) installed and running.

April 13th, 2008 In Apache HTTPD server normally when you have no index or default page in a directory, a visitor may be served with a full list of files in that the directory. This could pose a serious security risk.

July 24th, 2006 You can easily and effectively use your .htaccess file to easily and effectively block comment and referrer spammers targeting your blog(s). If you are using WordPress you can also use my Referrer Bouncer plugin, which is much simpler, to block referrer spammers.

June 28th, 2008 Any PHP based software like WordPress, Mambo, Joomla, Drupal, MODx etc. will serve pages both from http://your-site.com as well as http://your-site.com/index.php.