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First off, there is a plethora of great material on .htaccess on SO. However, some of it is advanced and it mostly spread across multiple questions. Today I found a tutorial with a number of good tips, which will be in an answer.

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The tutorial at JavaScriptKit covers the following topics each with a brief example:

  • Error Documents
  • Password protection
  • Enabling SSI via htaccess
  • Blocking users by IP
  • Blocking users/ sites by referrer
  • Blocking bad bots and site rippers (aka offline browsers)
  • Change your default directory page
  • Redirects
  • Prevent viewing of htaccess
  • Adding MIME types
  • Preventing hot linking of your images and other file types
  • Preventing directory listing
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An advanced tutorial on mod_rewrite, a commonly used feature of .htaccess files:

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Some different methods for preventing hotlinking with mod_rewrite:

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