On the Inside

I can never make sense of .htaccess. Most of the tutorials I've tried don't even end up working right for me. I'm sure it's my own Apache ineptitude... and maybe some bad tutorial writing.

In any event, here's a good tutorial that explains what these files do fairly well (although it's not the kind of resource with examples of how to do things... I'll post those later):

http://apache-server.com/tutorials/ATusing-htaccess.html