Tag Archives: htaccess

Accessing virtual hosts across a LAN

Posted on 5 September, 2011 by Veronica Yuill

Like many web developers, I have a local Apache/MySQL/PHP setup for developing sites. To ensure maximum compatibility with live servers, I set up a virtual host for each site. That way I know all paths will work. For example, on … Continue reading →

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Preventing hotlinking of images

Posted on 29 September, 2009 by Veronica Yuill

Using an .htaccess file to prevent people stealing bandwidth by linking directly to your images from another website is a popular and well-known technique. I needed to do this, but decided to take it a step further with a little … Continue reading →

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