Topics Covered: What is .htaccess file? When to use .htaccess file? Disadvantage of using .htaccess file Authentication using .htaccess file Custom Error Document Allow/Disallow Directory Listings What is .htaccess file? .htaccess file is used on Apache Web Server to make configuration changes on per-directory basis. This file contains the configuration directives and are applied to
The JavaScript, CSS and other files used in a website are often cached by the browser. Sometimes we might want the browser to always fetch the file from the server instead of from the cache. To do this we can use a cachebuster code to make the browser think that every time it is fetching
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With so many tools available for Web Development its hard to find the right tools for the job. In this post I will mention some of the tools that I personally use for Web Development. Also, I will give links to some websites which can be really helpful for certain tasks like regular expressions etc.
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To create multiple websites, it would be helpful to have each website setup on the local computer. With Wampserver (or just Apache) we can easily configure multiple websites. Following are the steps to create multiple websites using Apache’s configuration. This uses Apache’s “Named Virtual Hosts” configuration. I have tested these steps on Wampserver 2.1 running
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In this article I will list a few things that can be done to speed up website. I will give just brief description on each topic and give links to find more details on those topics. I have used tools like Google’s Page Speed, YSlow, Audits Tab in Chrome Developer Tools.
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