First of all, let’s talk about XAMPP a bit. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use – just download, extract and start.

There are three types of distribution (Windows, Linux and Mac). I am not going to discuss anything about XAMPP, I think that with a visit to their site you will all the info required to install and run this wonderful package.

What I want to concentrate on is that when trying to use a regular .htaccess in a specific folder, Apache fires a beautiful and really annoying More >