Redirecting web addresses is a common use for .htaccess when addresses become too long or complicated. For example, if you had a blog running on your website and you wanted to share a post you had made the address could look something like:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/how-to-use-htaccess-to-redirect-long-urls\/<\/pre>\n<\/br>Using .htaccess we could create a redirect that is easier to type and remember e.g.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.mydomain.com\/htaccess<\/pre>\n<\/br>This technique is often referred to as url rewriting. Here is what our .htaccess file would look like:<\/p>\n
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> \nRewriteEngine On \nRewriteRule ^\/htaccess$ \/how-to-use-htaccess-to-redirect-long-urls [L]\n<\/IfModule><\/pre>\n