EdgeCrafting - giving you an Edge !

I've had to explore htaccess quite a bit since my original post about 301 redirect with htaccess - so below all you need to get started with .htaccess tools and 301 redirect.

Apache web servers use a special access control file named .htaccess, which uses a combination of directives to allow or disallow access to files or folders on the server. The normal location for your .htaccess file is in the web root directory.

The .htaccess file can also be used for creating custom redirect rules for files, folders and entire websites that have been moved or deleted, e.g. 301 redirect directives, prevent image hot-linking (direct links from other sites) and more

301 redirect for a single page


<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://edgecrafting.blogspot.com/newpage.htm">
<TITLE>Page has moved</TITLE>
</HEAD>



You only need these 3 .htaccess links




• Apache htaccess tutorial
  
• Ultimate default skeleton .htaccess file
  
• Clockwatchers htaccess Tools
  Excellent site with generators to create .htaccess files for hotlink protection, password protection, 301 redirects, custom error pages etc.
  

htaccess geo-ip and blocklist providers

• MaxMind GeoIP
  IP info for countries
• Free selected blocklist maintained by wizcrafts.net
  Nigerian Blocklist, Chinese Blocklist, or Russia and Exploited Server Blocklist

sigh, lot of stuff to do with a new blog;

Added feedburner and feedflare to the customizations, together with google analytics I think this should cover the basics regarding subscriptions and statistics - do like Google more and more with all the free stuff available

Note: adding tag admin trivia to these post, should make it easy to do a catch up post later describing all the basic steps for a new blog

added a .htaccess file with 301 redirect from my old blogurl to this place

Redirect 301 /blog/index.htm http://edgecrafting.blogspot.com/
Redirect 301 /blog/ http://edgecrafting.blogspot.com/

Since blogspot-hosting uses suffix html I had to add an explicit redirect for the index.htm page - should make the spiders happy