It's very simple to block access to a directory. We will use in this article some rules for the .htaccess file. Just add the following lines in your .htaccess file: RedirectMatch 403 ^/folder_name/?$ ErrorDocument 403 default The above lines will…
We recommend two tools for testing SSL certificates. 1. SSL Shopper Checker - https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html This is a simple tool and it will list only some values like IP of the site, server type, certificate issuer, certificate expiration etc. If everything…
Many times you may need to use a different file name for the default index page. Most web servers use a list of default index pages, like index.html, index.htm, index.php, index.phtml etc. You can easily instruct the webserver to load…
You changed your domain name and you want to redirect all requests to the new domain? You can create such a redirect by adding a few lines in the site's .htaccess file. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}…
On Windows, you can easily use GUI software like FileZilla to connect to your FTP server. In this article, we will show how to connect via the FTP utility from the Command Prompt/PowerShell. In the case of cPanel, you can…
SFTP, the abbreviation for SSH (or Secure) File Transfer Protocol is using by default port 22. Many servers nowadays are using different port numbers, like 2222. We will show in this article how to connect to an explicit port number, using the…
