Simple Mod_Rewrite Codefix(Virtual Directory hosts only)

Hi there,

It's been a while since I've done any Apache web server tweaking, but I hope that this suggestion might at least get you on your way.

The .htaccess file does a whole bunch of stuff, and one of them as you've found is defining the rewrite rules for mod-rewrite.
If I remember correctly (you may need help from your new provider to correctly set the permissions on your new .htaccess file if you haven't already got one), you may be able to use the following code inside the file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ $1.php
RewriteRule ^shop/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ templates/$1.php
RewriteRule ^shop/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ templates/$1.php

I have cobbled those rules together from memory and with some reference, so I hope that they are at least close.
In case they're not here is a brief summary of what one does as an example...

RewriteRule - Does what it says on the tin, defines a new rule.

^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ - This is the clever bit, called a Regular Expression. This is the bit that looks for one or more characters A to Z (upper and lower case) and numerics, after the first slash after your domain name (mywebsite.com). In the case of mywebsite.com/shop, it will find the word shop.

$1.php - This second section defines how that found word gets rewritten to make the real URL. In your case, anything like mywebsite.com/shop should get rewritten to mywebsite.com/shop.php.

The rules I've written above allow for users to type mywebsite.com/shop as well as mywebsite.com/shop/ in order to get to the real URL of mywebsite.com/shop.php

I've also provided the second pair of rules according to your description above that should hopefully redirect any requests from mywebsite.com/shop/category/ to mywebsite.com/templates/category.php

All I can suggest is that you give the above a try. Feel free to reply if it doesn't work, and I would be happy to take another look and see if I've made a silly error :)

Hope this helps.

htaccess is a simple text file that resides on a web server. It's called htaccess because the file is named ".htaccess" (with the period in front).

The purpose of the file is to allow the manager of the website to change the way a website functions by changing various configuration options for the software that runs the website (AKA, the webserver software. This software is called "Apache").

The file contains commands for the webserver software. These commands specify the new values for the configuration options.

There is too much detail about htaccess to go into here. The best way to learn about it is to read a tutorial like this one: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html or to start by knowing what configuration change you want to make to the webserver software and then consulting the documentation in order to learn whether you can change that via htaccess and then how to do it.

based on this
http://www.whois.ws/whois-ip/74.201.117.232/

NetRange: 74.201.0.0 - 74.201.255.255
CIDR: 74.201.0.0/16

so you need to block those set of ip addresses via .htaccess.
once you do this other sites hosted on those ip address can't access your site.

if you have existing .htaccess file better download that your computer first then add the lines:

order allow,deny
deny from 74.201
allow from all

if not existing:
create a file .htaccess

the content of the .htaccess file is this:

order allow,deny
deny from 74.201
allow from all