.htaccess - is only for PHP? - .htaccess

I am working on one website which is developed in .net. I have uploaded .htaccess files but its nt working.
Is there any new idea for that? I want that my site will be crawled with www.
Thanks

.htaccess is not just for PHP.
It's a configuration file that's read by the Apache HTTP server. So if your application is not running on that server, then that file will not have any effect.

.htaccess and PHP are orthogonal. One is a configuration file for Apache; the other is a scripting language. More than likely, you're using Microsoft's IIS server, not Apache.

The .htaccess file is a configuration file for the Apache web server, and is not dependant on PHP. It typically contains settings relating to web site user permissions, friendly URL definitions, etc.
It can, however contain configuration settings for PHP, if you have settings which are in the server's PHP.ini file that you want to override for this specific web directory.
There are many reasons why a .htaccess file may not work -- it can be broken by some very subtle things, and a faulty .htaccess file will normally cause the whole site to stop working completely, regardless of what the error is.
In this case, the browser will usually simply show an error 500, without much useful information to help you debug it. But there will be more helpful debugging data in the server error log.
If you still struggle with it, you should post your .htaccess file here so we can help you debug it.
However, as #Tomalk says, if you're developing a .NET site then you're probably not using an Apache web server; you're probably using an IIS server. In that case, there are entirely different ways of setting the configuration for the server, and it won't know what to do with .htaccess file.

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Site redirecting to a malicious website, already cleaned the code

I have a website which is infected by some malicious malware. In the beginning I could notice that there was some strange javascript code on the site pages so I delete it and everything was fine for a few days, but now google lists the website as dangerous even though that I have checked the site code for any strange code but I could not find anything.
I have try Sucuri SiteCheck and it detects redirections to a malicious site. At first I thought that it may be an .htaccess file that was doing the redirection but I checked the files on the shared server and there is no .htaccess file.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
Your hosting account has bee hacked. Change your password on your hosting service. Go through your site code once more (every file) and look for things that don't belong. Clear your browser cache and then try again. If your account is hacked again, find a new hosting service. Once you're sure that your site is clean and your account has been secured, let Google know about the problems and request a removal from their suspect list:
Google support
check your .htaccess file for the redirection or the whether the files contain and unwanted malicious java script.

How to monitor what IP's are connected to my domain

Greetings,
I currently have a website.
How could I trace the IP that is currently accessing my website?
Could I also trace to what URL of my website they are accessing?
Thanks,
Cyril H.
I think providing a little more information about your website would be good. What type of server is it? Apache, perhaps?
If you are using a Windows server with IIS, open up your IIS Manager, and view the logs for the site in question.
If you are running a *nix box, it would all depend on what web server you have installed, I will assume that its apache, so you could check the apache conf file where the logs are located. Most installations I have seen they are in /var/log/apache2/ or something similar to /var/log/httpd etc;
Then you simply view the files. By default most web servers log requests (access) and errors (failed requests, 404 files/pages).
Should give you all the details you mentioned. But it depends on what you have running.

Is there a website level setting in IIS that would prevent an ASP page from being served?

Trying to copy a website to a new server as the old one is dying. :(
I tried copying over the files and setting it up manually, but some specific user accounts needed to be used and the guy who set all this up left the company nearly 5 years ago. And is even worse at documentation than I am.
Anyway, at that point the ASP pages were serving, but getting errors. Ok, fine... I went back and exported the configuration from the old server (lucky that worked at all) and created a new website from that config on the new server. On the new website, from the config file, the ASP pages are giving 404 errors.
The Active Server Pages extension is enabled, and I can actually get the asp pages to serve from another website on the server... so I'm thinking it's something at the website level. No idea what though.
Any ideas?
Back when I was doing classic ASP development we used Parent Paths. This is at the top of your ASP file you'll see something like;
<!--#include file="../../resource/includes/MSSQLconnection.asp"-->
This isn't enabled by default in IIS. It may not be answer but worth looking at. But was a long time ago now.
Hope this helps,
Mike
404 is a file not found error.
Start by checking you can access a 'hello world' HTML file in the folder using http: //localhost/path/toyour/HelloWorldFile.htm
Hello World
is all you need in the file = you don't need to bother with any HTML markup to test what we're interested in.
This will check that your virtual directories, application settings etc are correct before you move on to the Active Server Page settings.
Once you've got your paths sorted out and you know you are looking for your application in the correct place move on to a 'hello world' ASP file
<%="Hello World"%>
is all you need in that file!
You ask about settings in IIS which will stop ASP from working. These come to mind as the most obvious.
Depending on the OS (or more specifically the IIS version) you may also need to activate ASP pages.
These instructions from msdn cover Windows 2003 (IIS6) and Windows 2008(IIS 7.x)
If you can get your hello world script working you can move on to debugging your application.
It will be a great help when debugging the application if you can see what's going wrong so I recommend that you turn off friendly error messages if you are using Internet Explorer. Also set IIS to pass error messages on to the browser
see:
http: //learn.iis.net/page.aspx/564/classic-asp-script-error-messages-no-longer-shown-in-web-browser-by-default/ --excuse the link formatting but SO's newbies can't post more than 2 hyperlinks in a message was getting in the way of me trying to be helpful and earning enough rep to post more!
(that may only be relevant to IIS 7.x I don't have an IIS6 installation lying around to refresh my memory.
Make sure you are browsing your application on the server using http: //localhost - this should ensure you see any errors
Good luck

ASP Pages not rendering properly

Good Morning,
I was having serious problems regarding this website.
What happens is everyytime I try to open a .shtml page in the site it always has an error "The Page Cannot Be Found" but this is highly unlikely since I already all have the resources in my local pc and already did a virtual directory for the entire site. Can you please tell me what's the problem? i've checked all the codes and they're constructed just fine.
If you're attempting to view the page in Internet Explorer then I recommend turning off friendly HTTP error messages in the advanced settings. Disabling the setting may result in more verbose error messages, especially if it's an HTTP/500.
This is not actually an ASP problem. .shtml files are handled by the server-side include ISAPI application extension.
In Web service Extensions folder under the server icon in IIS manager, ensure that Server Sice Includes is set to "Allowed".

url rewrite in IIS

This question is related to another question which I asked yesterday!
List all links in web site
I think renaming all the .html files to .asp and changing the links is not good for SEP purposes. Some one told me that isapi plug-in can be used to redirect(301) all .html files to .asp files.
Can any one explain this for me? Searching did not help me much.
Thanks
We've been using the Ionic rewriter. It seems to work very well. Your application doesn't need any knowledge of the rewriter. You just configure it in IIS, and it redirects your links. It's also free/donationware.
IIS 7 has this feature built in.
You can use http://urlrewriter.net/ to do what you need. You'll need to set it up so that ASP.NET processes .html extensions. Then you can redirect (301) .html to .aspx very easily with this line in your web.config (in the urlrewriter section):
<redirect url="^(.+)\.html(.+)$" to="$1.aspx$2" permanent='true' />
Another option is not to rename the files at all. You could setup an application mapping for HTML files which will pass them through the asp processor. This will give you dynamic content, etc without any SEO side effects.
As ever, there is a downside. Passing an HTML file which is intended to be static through the asp processor is less efficient than just serving it up..

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