how to use htaccess?

Anon

i need a very simple example to learn how to use htaccess in a folder to protect the whole files and folders in it.

-hkn

wadearnold

http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/~moniot/Classes/InternetWebF01/htaccess-howto.html

Just found this link on google.. You can always get the full documentation at apache.org

Cheers;
wade

mixx22

I don't know exactly how it works, but i took over maintaining a site and i've been looking at that file that the person before me made. all he wrote in it is:

Redirect /page you want redirected http://page to redirect to.

ex.
Redirect /Login.htm http://www.yahoo.com

i think that Login in this case is the old site page and in order to redirect them to the new site the type in the above code.

hope this helps, who knows, i may not even understand it that much.

wadearnold

What are you trying to do? Redirect the page or place access restriction on it? If you have a question about what the .htaccess file is doing cut and paste the file into your post. This may be something that could be better resolved at apache.org...

mixx22

ok i will try that. by the way do you know anything about redirecting in php?

wadearnold

<?php
header ("Location: http://redirectpage.com");
exit;
?>

mixx22

i've tried that but i get errors. here is my code:

<?php

$linkID = @mysql_connect("localhost", "login", "password");
mysql_select_db("DB name", $linkID);

$resultID = mysql_query("Select * FROM table name", $linkID);

print "<TABLE BORDER = 1><TR><TH>Login Name</TH>";
print "<TH>Password</TH>";

for ($x=0; $x <= mysql_num_rows($resultID); $x++)
{
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($resultID);
if (($row[LoginName]==$LoginName)&&($row[Password]==$Password))
{
print "<TR><TD>$row[LoginName]</TD>";
print "<TR><TD>$row[Password]</TD>";

**this is where i want the redirect*

}
else
{
print "<tr><td><font color=red>Invalid Login Name.</font></td>";
}
}

Anon

Can't have any output before you use the headed function..........

Anon

<?php
$dbname='yourdbname';//
$tablename='yourtablename';//

$linkID = @mysql_connect("localhost", "login", "password");//

mysql_select_db($dbname, $linkID);//

$resultID = mysql_query("Select * FROM $yourtablename", $linkID); //

print "<TABLE BORDER = 1><TR><TH>Login Name</TH>";
print "<TH>Password</TH>";

**this is where i want the redirect*

}
else
{
print "<tr><td>Invalid Login Name.</td>";
}
}