Keep Your Traffic with htaccess

Muhammad Nur — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:31:10 +0000

The situation are:
There’s a time when we start making website with .html files, it’s hard to update regularly. Then we make it into a dynamic website using .php files. But at the same time our previous website already have their own readers, I mean when the readers bookmarked one of the page.

Lets say the readers bookmarked www.domainname.com/news.html and we change our file name to .php. So it will be www.domainname.com/news.php. Next time the readers open up the bookmarked page, an error page will come out.

How to prevent this from happening? .htaccess file is the solution. All we need to do is redirecting all the .html files your readers type in the address bar to go to the same filename but .php. All you have to do is to create a .htaccess file and paste this code.
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html $1\.php [L, NC]

Save it and upload it into your server in the same directory with your index.php file.

So you dont have to worry about losing your traffic when you have to change your file name next time.

If you have any suggestions or any tips to add, please leave some comment.

open_basedir restriction in effect solution

muhaimin — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:20:10 +0000

Usually this happen when you’re running PHP under safe mode. Those who use shared hosting will probably hit by this error.

In my case, the problem hit when the script tries to create a new folder. I used $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] as absolute path and continued by folder name.

The solution is to remove the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and the trailing slash at the end of the folder name you’re going to create. The acceptable path for safe mode PHP is: folder_name/folder_to_be_created

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Keep Your Traffic with htaccess

open_basedir restriction in effect solution