Htaccess and Redirects for Dummies

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One of the most powerful, yet simple manipulations that can be done with your htaccess file is a basic redirect function.

A .htaccess file resides in the web-root directory of most Linux servers that have Apache installed (which is a majority of the servers online). This .htaccess file is a text file which contains user-defined server configuration settings, which include URL manipulations.

The simple and most common configuration setting is the redirect. Using this function, you can create pseudo directories and files on your local host that will redirect to other URLs. This can be used to hide (or cloak) affiliate links and manage the file linking structure of your website more efficiently.

The syntax is simple:

redirect {local/pseudo location} {destination URL}

Example:

redirect /google http://www.google.com

If this htaccess file resides on my blog at http://www.matthewbredel.com and I typed in:

http://www.matthewbredel.com/google

My host will redirect the user to:

http://www.google.com

Category:

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Tags:

• htaccess
• redirect
• url
• cloaking
• apache

[stdavross666]

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[MatthewBredel]

@stdavross666 Actually, I lived in Sydney for about 2 years (and I married an Aussie, too, which helps!) :-)

[stdavross666]

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[MatthewBredel]

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[MatthewBredel]

Full details about the code referenced in the video can be found under (more info) on the right (above the description). cheers...matt

[MACSMovies]

Excellent information.

[Vulcan750L]

How do I keep a web folder private? I want to prevent web bots from listing the contents of one of my folders. I'm guessing it has to do with .htaccess?

[stdavross666]

@MatthewBredel ah I see

[rcoleyjr]

hey... how do i link my google domain to another personal website

[waynemcdonald1987201]

@kevinlmanon hey kevin all you have to do its rename the text file to .htaccess and once you have your link re-direct written in the note pad then you can save it as a .txt file and add it to you'r root file hope this helps a little bit

[sronen71]

Thank you. Works!