how I learn “.htaccess”

I must agree I learned a lot, while doing my code-igniter project named “CAIRNS Property Guide”. One of this learning is about HTACCESS. Previously I was scare about this word “.HTACCESS”. I always run away for this creepy name .HTACCESS. But, at a point I had to write some modification on HTACCESS file. Those who work with HTACCESS, they know, if some rules are written wrong, .htaccess file will never and ever work. Well, I also face this same problem. I do copy and paste some rules from net. And its showed error. So, by force I had to learn what’s .htaccess is and how can I make them working. Now, I want to share my knowledge with you. Of course what I will write about .htaccess file, that will collected from some books and some internet source. So, please don’t think I am going to publish new rules about .HTACCESS file: D. I am preparing my document about .HTACCESS file, for those who are interested to learn .htaccess quickly. Hope very soon I will about to publish it.

codeigniter -’secure, non-secure content’ pop up message in IE7

While doing my Project with Codeigniter I face a very disgusting problem. My developed site’s some pages are HTTPS, and other parts are HTTP. When I try to access the HTTPS page in IE it shows a pop up message telling

”This page content secure & non-secure content……!”

It was really very much annoying. I tried with many ways. After a lot of cost, I successfully solve this problem. Now, I want to share my words how you can you stop this irritating pop up message.

There are actullay two ways,

1. Manually way: change the setting of your IE browser.
2. Dynamic & efficient way:

Manual way you will find in google. So, don’t want to discuss about that. I am interested to share 2^nd option. Because, manually changing the browser setting is not an proficient way and not a good solution. If you tell every visitor to change the setting, visitor will never back to your site. So, a good programmer will never do that.

Anyways, just come to the point. How can we solve this problem?

• If there is any <iframe src=”"
  • Replace it to <iframe src=” javascript:void(0)”
• If there is <link href=http://server_name.com/system/application/css/style.css
  • Replace it with <link href=https//server_name.com/system/application/css/style.css
• If there is <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://system/application/css/swfobject.js”></script>
  • Replace with <script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://server_name.com/system/application/css/swfobject.js”></script>

For codeigniter you will not able to write the URL directly. So, you have to take the “base url”  dynamically.  For all non-secure pages base_url will be HTTP. and for all encrypted page, base_url will be HTTPS.

Like: for encrypted pages, $base_url=https://server_name.com/ and

for non-secure pages, $base_url=http://server_name.com/

‘<?php echo $this->config->slash_item(  $base_url ); ?>