5 cool .htaccess tips for beginners

Andrzej has some great tips on how to use the .htaccess file (for Apache)

The tips listed are:
- how to disable directory listing
- custom error pages
- managing redirects
- access management
- redirect everyone except a specific IP (or group of) to a specific domain

ps: Comments and/or links to this article are most welcome!

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