Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

I am hosting a few sites over on Dreamhost (best host on the planet!) and came up against a problem the other day that I am sure many others have faced. One of the sites is running Textpattern and is using the /section method to write links. This, of course, activates the mod_rewrite module and sticks the rewrite rules in to an .htaccess file.

Once you do this, and then try to go to your Dreamhost-generated webstats (domain.com/stats), you will get a 404 error. Here is a quick solution for fixing this. Add these lines to the top of your .htaccess file in your webroot, just after the “RewriteEngine On” line:


RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]


That should do it. Upload the .htaccess file back to your webroot and you should be good to go. I think this also occurs if you use the One-Click install for Wordpress from the Dreamhost control panel.

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