CODE:
# Page has moved temporarily
# domain.com/old_page.html to domain.com/new_page.html
RewriteRule ^old_page.html$ new_page.html [R,NC,L]

CODE:
# SEO / Pretty URLs (no query string)
# domain.com/category-name-1/ to domain.com/categories.php?name=category-name-1
RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/?$ categories.php?name=$1 [L]

CODE:
# Pretty URLs with pagination (no query string)
# domain.com/section/title/5 to domain.com/section.php?name=title&page=5
RewriteRule ^section/([A-Za-z0-9-]+)/([0-9]+)/?$ section.php?name=$1&page=$2 [L]

CODE:
# Block referrer spam
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERRER} (casino) [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERRER} (poker) [NC]
RewriteRule .* – [F]

CODE:
# Block image hotlinking
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.+\.)?mysite\.com/ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://domain.com/nohotlink.gif [L]

CODE:
# Block image hotlinking from myspace
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.+\.)?myspace\.com/ [NC,OR]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ http://domain.com/nohotlink.gif [L]

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/ you list all the configuration files for your websites. In /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ you make a symlink to the sites in /sites-available/

Sounds straight forward:

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/www.domain.com .

So now if you want to deactivate a site simply remove the symlink. I made the mistake this morning of performing this command inside the /sites-enabled/ directory:

cp domain-config domain-config.0001

This was using the symlink to the file in the /sites-available/ and copying it to domain-config.0001. MUY Stupido but that said I don’t know how it screwed up the logging…

Lesson learned and everythings hunky dory again.