htaccess Builder Tool Add-on

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I have been considering creating a new ".htaccess Builder" tool add-on. It would simply be a generator tool that you can use in your dashboard that would generate code that you can (manually) copy to your htaccess file. It would be ideal for advanced developers. It would work like this:

- Tabbed interface with a variety of options
- Output could be in the form of a downloadable text file, or simply copy and paste the code to the .htaccess file

Also, some of the options that you would be able to set up might include:
- "Bad bots" (deny specific bots access to your site)
- Re-directs
- Cache control
- Error pages
- Canonicalization

What do you think? How much interest is there in this?

PineCreativeLabs
 
12345j replied on at Permalink Reply
12345j
I'd suspect that advanced debs would be comfortable making their own htaccess. I might aim for a different audience.

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PineCreativeLabs replied on at Permalink Reply
PineCreativeLabs
I agree. What I have in mind would be very easy, even for end-users. There'd be plenty of built-in documentation to explain what does what, and a majority of the interface would mostly be drop-down selectors.

So, I guess beginners and intermediates will be the audience for this. Of course, it would be a great way to save time for everyone, too!
SteadyIT replied on at Permalink Reply
SteadyIT
@growthcurve - This is an interesting discussion on htaccess files. I found this when searching the forums for a good example of htaccess files used in Concrete5.

Do you have any recommendations, or links to other C5 forum discussions, that would highlight an example of a htaccess file used in Concrete5 sites?
mesuva replied on at Permalink Reply
mesuva
It's an interesting idea, but I reckon if it's not going to automatically update the .htaccess file (which I don't think it should), then having it as an actual add-on is probably overkill. You wouldn't install it for each site for example, it's more of a tool you'd have in your development toolkit.

Perhaps you could build a stand-alone form for such to put on your own website growthcurb, to drive traffic and rankings..?

I've got a template I regularly copy and paste from when I'm turning on things like server side compression or for tweaking caching, but I often do find myself googling htaccess settings a lot.

So a stand alone tool to help generate htaccess commands (there are lots out there, but probably not concrete5 specific), would be something I would be interested in, but an actual package for concrete5, not so much.