Playing with .htaccess to serve your server

The fact that i have been playing with webhosting for a long time has made me like .htaccess very much , i dont care what others say , but to me the file is indispensible and let me show you how small tasks can be easily achieved by this one file wonder. first thing first , make a test .htaccess file in a test hosting account and proceed. For those who might be confused , .htaccess is a file by the same name. 1. htaccess file redirecting - .htaccess can be used to make redirects in your site , and that too very easily and these redirects work much better than javascript redirects my experience as a webmaster has taught me. See and Observe Redirect /toberedirected http://wisetechie.com/blog/ Here tobe redirected is the old directory which needs to be redirected to the blog directory. For example - Redirect /tests http://wisetechie.com/blog/ will take you to my blog directory upon entering http://wisetechie.com/tests , the change will take place automatically in the address...