mod_rewrite Not Working in .htaccess - Solution

October 23rd, 2006 .htaccess is a web server directive file populalrly used in Apache Web Server in Linux / Unix environment. In windows environment there is a simple way to enable and use .htaccess.

June 29th, 2006 I learnt a hard lesson today on mod_rewrite. I haven't had time to explore further to find the root cause.

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.

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.

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.

February 6th, 2008 I accidentally discovered a super-cool re-direction feature embedded in WordPress 2.3.x. Any blog may have multiple url pointing to the same blog.

June 29th, 2006 Update: I am delighted to announce the release of Angsuman's Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress 2.x blogs. It provides automatic machine translation of your blog in eight different languages - German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

March 11th, 2005 This tip covers configuration in Options/Permalinks [Edit Permalink Structure] for WordPress users. My version is WordPress 1.5.

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.

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.

July 24th, 2006 Many online blogging software and other products require some type of cron and / or asynchronous execution functionality. Spammers and web robots are an essential part of any website today.

June 10th, 2008 Frankly I am tired of the Flash based image uploader. It doesn't work most of the time, when it works it is pretty unstable, frequently fails on Opera, doesn't work (for me) on Firefox in Linux even with latest Flash, doesn't work with .htaccess fix and more.

June 30th, 2006 I am working to transition my server to dedicated web hosting. My Westhost VPS account is crumbling under traffic and no amount of optimization is being able to handle anymore the heavy traffic I am getting.

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.

October 29th, 2005 A Simple Programming Question for Beginners