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Simple Way to Relay or Pass POST Data From A Page to Another Without .htaccess, Even Cross-Domain

So I had a page which I absolutely could not change or rename. The challenge was, this page would normally receive POST data, and I had to pass or relay this POST data to another page, which resided on another domain. I tried .htaccess, but that didn’t work, so I figured that I had to [...]

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How To Create And Use .htaccess Files For Apache Web Server in Microsoft Windows

Windows doesn’t support .htaccess files because of the naming convention. To Windows,.htaccess essentially is a nameless file, with a .htaccess file extension, similar in concept to having a file named .jpg. So you can see why file editors would complain if you try to save a file named .htaccess. You can workaround this by 2 ways [...]

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Edit .htaccess to increase PHP’s max file upload

To increase the upload file size limit on your website, you need to edit PHP’s configuration settings. Unfortunately, not everyone has their own web server, so most of the time people are constrained by the limits of shared hosting. But you can still modify your base php.ini file by creating your own php.ini with the [...]

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