.htaccess commands

[apwade]

Does anybody have a list of the .htaccess commands with brief explantation or know where i can find such a list?

Also does anybody know how to redirect a directory of files to one file?

i.e. /shops/shop1.htm redirects generic.htm
/shops/shop2.htm redirects generic.htm
/shops/shop3.htm redirects generic.htm etc

and keeps the old url address

Cheers Andrew

[wige]

The best resource for server directives would be at Apache HTTP Server Version 2.2 Documentation - Apache HTTP Server

To redirect an entire directory, you would use

RedirectMatch 301 ^/shops/.*$ http://yourserver/generic.htm

[kgun]

Is there a command that allow files parsed py PHP to be written to disk on a shared server?

I have to do all my configuration in .htaccess, since I think my hoster for security reason do not allow me access to php.ini on a shared server.

Here is a typical example august 10 2007:

http://www.kjellbleivik.com/SpHelp/morgy1

PHP Code:

print 'PHP Version on this web server is: ' . PHP_VERSION . '<br /> <br />'; 
//Parsing starts here 
$tagsXML = "<root><node1>This is parsed in the same way on the latest versions of FireFox, IE and Opera</node1></root>"; 
$sxe = new SimpleXMLElement($tagsXML); 
print $sxe->asXML(); 
print '<br /> <br />'; 
print 'You need permission to save a file to the disk'; 
print '<br />'; 
$sxe->asXML('morgy.xml');  //No permission to save to file 
?> 


asXML is the cause.

[wige]

This is not an .htaccess or PHP.ini issue, this is an issue with the file system that you are using. If you have FTP access to the folder where you are trying to write the file, which should only contain files and not executable code, you would want to change the permissions of that folder to world writable.

You can test if the directory can be written to by using the following:

PHP Code:

if (is_writable('directory/')) {
   $sxe->asXML('directory/morgy.xml') or die('can\'t write the file');
} else {
   echo 'Permissions insufficient to write here.';
} 


And of course at the end of the script you would have

PHP Code:

function die($msg) { echo ($msg); exit();} 


Assuming you are using a Linux server, you should chmod the folder you are writing to to 774 provided the folder only contains text files.

[kgun]

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[kgun]

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[TrafficProducer]

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