You can password protect specific directories on your website very easily in just a few minutes. You might want to password protect a directory to:Restrict access to certain directories so that only you can access them Allow certain users to view content specifically for them Prevent … [Read more...]

A common error message that you might see when creating your website is a 500 Internal Server error. The error is particularly frustrating because it gives you no information about what specifically caused the server error. The steps in this article should help you to diagnose and find what is … [Read more...]

A common question asked in webmaster forums is how to block certain web spiders, crawlers or bots from accessing your site. You can do this using robots.txt, but some web crawlers have been known to ignore this request. A more reliable way to block bots is to use your .htaccess file instead. What … [Read more...]

One of the first things you might notice when you install Drupal is that trying to visit a file or folder that is not controlled by the Drupal CMS returns a 404 File Not Found error. This happens even if those files and folders do exist. So for example if you went to mysite.com/not-drupal/ it would … [Read more...]