Tutorial Temporary Maintenance using Mod_Rewrite

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# Don't forget to turn on the rewrite engine
RewriteEngine on

# Maintenance Redirection
# Replace 555\.555\.555\.555 with your own IP address
# Uncomment first conditional to turn off the redirection
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^$a
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !maintenance.html
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !(styles|images).+$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^555\.555\.555\.555$
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} !^127\.0\.0\.1$
RewriteRule (.*) /maintenance.html [R,L]

This code makes it easy to temporarily take down a website for updates. Replace the "555" line with your own IP address so that you'll still be able to view the website as normal while everyone else gets redirected. Images and styles are allowed to pass through the filter as well.

The first commented condition is designed to fail every time, so turning this redirection off is as simple as uncommenting that line.

Tutorial Subdirectories URL Internally Redirect to Query String

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The URL in the browser would be:

http://css-tricks.com/index.php/teachers/a/

The actual page rendered by the server would be:

http://css-tricks.com/index.php?search=teachers&sort=a

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^index/([^/]+)/([^/]+).php /page.php?search=$1&sort=$2 [NC]

Reference URL

Tutorial Shock Teenage Gangsters with wp-config Redirect

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Funny email from a reader, that I figured would make a good post:

This is a funny redirect. I get one or two visits a day from teenage gangsters trying to enter my server by checking if a wp-config-file exists that is no longer the newest version. I got best panic results by linking to the Russian IT-Counter-intelligence Agency.

NOTE: You should NOT use this if you are ACTUALLY using WordPress. Also, I updated it to the FBI since that Russian site went down.

Redirect 301 /wp-config.php http://www.fbi.gov/

Tutorial Set Expires

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Setting "expires" tells browsers downloading these files that they don't need to request it again for this specific length of time. In otherwords, use the cache instead if you have it. This can reduce stress on the server for you, and speed up page load time for visitors.

# BEGIN EXPIRES
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
# END EXPIRES

Tutorial Serve SVG with the Correct Content Type

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If you are trying to use SVG like <img src="image.svg"> or as a CSS background-image, and the file is linked to correctly and everything seems right, but the browser isn't displaying it, it might be because your server is serving it with an incorrect content-type.

Add this to your .htaccess file at the root to fix it:

AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz

Tutorial Remove File Extention from URLs

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RewriteRule ^about$ about.php [L]

That little bit will make http://example.com/about.php be able to load at http://example.com/about

Tutorial Prevent Image Hotlinking

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RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yourdomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|gif|bmp|png)$ /images/dontsteal.jpg [L]

Images linked to from anywhere else than your website are redirected to a custom graphic. Do note though, that this would affect people reading posts through RSS readers as well.

Also allow search engines

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mydomain\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?google\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?(.*\.)?google\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?bing\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?(.*\.)?bing\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?yahoo\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?(.*\.)?yahoo\.(.+)/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|png)$ /transparent.gif [L]