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<h1 i18n:translate="">Apache for Webdesigners</h1>
<span style="font-style: italic;" i18n:translate="">.htaccess for HTMLers</span>
<p i18n:translate="">The
apache webserver highly end user configurable. This is done on the
directory level with <span style="font-weight: bold;" i18n:name="htaccess">.htaccess</span> files.</p>
<h2 i18n:translate="">How do I do this?</h2>
<h3 i18n:translate="">Default Images</h3>
<p i18n:translate="">If in a directory an
image is not found a default image shall be delivered. This is done by
configuring the default image as an error document in .htaccess.
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<pre><font color="#a52a2a"><b><Files</b></font><font color="#ff00ff"> "*.jpg"</font><font color="#a52a2a"><b>></b></font><br /><font color="#008b8b">ErrorDocument</font> 404 <span i18n:translate="">/path/needed/</span>dflt.jpg<br /><font color="#a52a2a"><b></Files></b></font>
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<p i18n:translate="">The purpose of the Files
container is to deliver the default image only for JPEGs. The
browser would be correct to be confused if he would get this default
image while requesting a GIF. </p>
<p i18n:translate="">The
method above has the disadvantage of writing 404s to the logfiles. If
this is not desirable, mod_rewrite needs to take care of this before
the 404 happens.
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<pre><font color="#008b8b">RewriteEngine</font> <font color="#ff00ff">On</font><br /><font color="#008b8b">RewriteCond</font> %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br /><font color="#008b8b">RewriteRule</font> ^.*\.jpg$ dflt.jpg [L]<br /></pre>
<h3 i18n:translate="">Marking Documents as Gone</h3>
<p i18n:translate="">If a document has been removed you will find
that search engine bots and the searchers that follow them keep
requesting those documents for months (in case you read your logs). If
you want the document to be removed from the
search engines indexes it makes sense to replace the usual 404 (Not
Found) with a 410 (Gone).</p>
<pre><font color="#008b8b">RedirectMatch</font> <font color="#ff00ff">gone</font> ^/webalbum.*<br /><br /></pre>
<p i18n:translate="">This is admittedly a bit unexpected for a directive
named RedirectMatch. Note that the third parameter has been omitted.</p>
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