.htaccess Primer with Jonathan Penn

.htaccess is a necessary file for many sites under the LAMP stack. It allows you to configure a variety of things like rewrites and redirects — but for many, anything beyond that is a complete mystery! What else is out there? Jonathan Penn explores the vast amount of ways .htaccess can be used to configure a site, server and files, plus gives advice on what you should add and avoid, and recommends tools that can help you build regular expressions.
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Deny Access from Bots to .htaccess
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Apache Cache Control
Enabling gzip compression
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