Posts Tagged “.htaccess”

Batch RewriteRule Generator

Comments:: 203

Tags:: Scripts; RewriteRule; Apache; .htaccess

By Jesse Donat on: Mar. 1, 2011 (Updated: Sep. 11, 2020)

I find myself often needing to set up a large number of 301 redirects from an excel file of old to new url’s. Until this point, writing these had been a fairly exhausting process as you need to be certain to escape every character that could be picked up by the regular expression engine, or risk uni…

A Balanced Look at GZIP and the User Experience

Comments:: 1

Tags:: PHP; PageRank; GZIP; Google; Best Practice; Apache; .htaccess

By Jesse Donat on: Aug. 17, 2010

With Google recently starting to involve load time in search rankings, there has been a lot of talk about GZIP. Google Webmaster Tools exclaims "Compressing the following resources with gzip could reduce their transfer size by XKB:". Many people listen to this, and go out looking for a quick fix…