Enable Directory Browsing
Options +Indexes## block a few types of files from showingIndexIgnore *.wmv *.mp4 *.avi
Disable Directory Browsing
Options All -Indexes
Customize Error Messages
ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
ErrorDocument 500 /servererror.html
Get SSI working with HTML/SHTML
AddType text/html .html
AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
# AddHandler server-parsed .htm
Change Default Page (order is followed!)
DirectoryIndex myhome.htm index.htm index.php
Block Users from accessing the site
order deny,allowdeny from 211.54.122.76
deny from 81.70.44.55
deny from .spammers.com
allow from all
Allow only LAN users
order deny,
allowdeny from all
allow from 192.168.0.0/24
Redirect Visitors to New Page/Directory
Block site from specific referrers
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} sitetoblock.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} sitetoblock-2.com
RewriteRule .* - [F]
Block Hot Linking/Bandwidth hogging
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?mydomain.com/.*$ RewriteRule .(gif|jpg)$ - [F]
Want to show a “Stealing is Bad” message too?
Add this below the Hot Link Blocking code:
Stop .htaccess (or any other file) from being viewed
order allow,denydeny from all
Avoid the 500 Error
# Avoid 500 error by passing charsetAddDefaultCharset utf-8
Grant CGI Access in a directory
Options +ExecCGIAddHandler cgi-script cgi pl#
To enable all scripts in a directory use the following
# SetHandler cgi-script
Change Script Extensions
AddType application/x-httpd-php .gne
gne will now be treated as PHP files! Similarly, x-httpd-cgi for CGI files, etc.
Use MD5 Digests
Performance may take a hit but if thats not a problem, this is a nice option to turn on.
ContentDigest On
Save Bandwidth
# Only if you use PHP
php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
Turn off magic_quotes_gpc
# Only if you use PHP
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
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