.htaccess tricks and tips: protecting directories and folders

.htaccess tricks and tips.. part one: tasty food for web serving thoughts.

introduction to .htaccess this work in progress is some collected wisdom, stuff I've learned on the topic of .htaccess hacking, stuff I've used successfully in the past, on a variety of server setups, and in most cases still do. you may have to tweak the examples some to get the desired result, though, and a reliable test server is a powerful ally, preferably one with a very similar setup to your "live" server. okay, to begin..