You heard it right, you can now run PHP 5.3 applications on HostMonster. I’ve only testing this on HostMonster, but I would assume the same applies to BlueHost. Simply add this line to the beginning of your website’s root .htaccess file: AddHandler application/x-httpd-php53 .php After making this change you can test it using phpinfo() and [...]
Normally you can easily enable Gzip compression using mod_deflate by adding the following lines to your .htaccess file: <IfModule mod_deflate.c> AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript </IfModule> But for those of you on shared hosts that don’t allow the mod_deflate module and run PHP in CGI/FastCGI mode you can’t go with the [...]
Just a quick post today, i needed to redirect a URL with and without a trailing slash to the same destination, but didn’t want to create two separate rules, so I did some searching and found that it is very simple. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*$ RewriteRule ^video(/)?$ http://video.somedomain.com [R=301,L] The (/)? is the key to matching [...]
This is useful for SEO so all your ranking gets added to one url and not divided between two. Use the following example to create a redirect from your root domain to your www sub-domain: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mycurrentdomain.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ http://www.mycurrentdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] To use this method you need have mod_rewrite installed and enabled on [...]