Tag Archives: Rewrite

Fix: WordPress with password protected subdirectories

July 12, 2012 9:51 am /

If you use WordPress on your root web folder, subdirectories password protected with .htaccess do not work. Users will not get the ability to put in their username and password to access the page. The Apache rewrite rules included in WordPress will forward users to the 404 error page instead.

To get around this, you will need to create a 401 error page in the web root directory (e.g. ~/public_html/401.html) and add the following line to the .htaccess file located in your web root directory.

ErrorDocument 401 /401.html

This also works for other apps using Apache Rewrite Rules, such as Drupal.

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Cleaner URLs in CodeIgniter

August 11, 2009 5:13 pm /

Here’s a quick tip to make cleaner looking URLs in CodeIgniter PHP framework. By default, if you have an application, the path of the application usually ends after index.php.  Using Apache RewriteEngine, you can make cleaner looking URLs. You can have something similar to mysite.com/cigniter/MyApplication instead of mysite.com/cigniter/index.php/MyApplication

  • Create a file named “.htaccess” inside your root CodeIgniter directory. It should look like the following:RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|robots\.txt)
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /[CODE IGNITER BASE]/index.php/$1 [L]where [CODE IGNITER BASE]  is the directory of your Code Igniter install. For instance, if you named your base install folder “cigniter”, the Rewrite Rule would look like:RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cigniter/index.php/$1 [L]
  • If you get an error, make sure your Apache install allows for RewriteEngine in that particular folder. This is usually located in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/YOURSITE The folder needs to have permissions of:AllowOverride AuthConfig
    Options +FollowSymlinksSee: http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/apache-rewrite.html
  • More info on CodeIgniter framework:
    http://codeigniter.com/
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