Surfing the web in the quest of a solution to add headers and footers via .htaccess I found a site that thought to share with you because of the number of tricks posted there can be useful to many of you. This is the list of available tricks: htaccess definition htaccess comments important information performance issues regex character definitions redirection header codes htaccess comments enable basic rewriting enable symbolic links enable AllowOverride rename the htaccess file disable AllowOverride pass the character set preserve bandwidth disable the server signature set the server timezone set admin email address enable file caching set default language & character set declare specific/additional MIME types send headers without meta tags limit request methods to GET/PUT process files according to request method execute various file types via CGI script prevent access to htaccess prevent access to any file prevent acess to multiple file types prevent unauthorized directory browsing change the default index page disguise script extensions limit access to the LAN secure directories by IP or domain deny/allow domain access for IP range deny/allow multiple IP addresses on one line miscellaneous rules for blocking/allowing stop hotlinking, serve alternate content block robots, rippers, and offline browsers more stupid blocking tricks even more scum-blocking tricks password-protect directories password-protect files, directories, and more require SSL (secure sockets layer) automatically CHMOD various file types disguise all file extensions limit file upload size disable script execution minimize CSS image flicker in IE6 deploy custom error pages provide a universal error document employ basic URL spelling check force media downloads display file source code redirect visitors during site development provide password-prompt during site development prevent access during specified time periods important note about redirecting via mod_rewrite redirect from www-domain to non-www-domain redirect from an old domain to a new domain redirect string variations to a specific address other fantastic redirect tricks send visitors to a subdomain more fun with RewriteCond & RewriteRule more fun with Redirect 301 & RedirectMatch 301 secure wordPress contact forms wordpress permalinks activate SSI for HTML/SHTML file types grant CGI access in a specific directory disable magic_quotes_gpc for PHP enabled servers enable MD5 digests expression engine tricks and this is the URL to find them: http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/ .