Once you have installed Apache and PHP in your server and the .htaccess redirect is not working properly It was due to the Apache configuration.

Request exceeded the limit of 10 internal redirects due to probable configuration error in PHP,

Do you want to protect at specific directory with password and redirect any one file use htaccess

There are two way to redirect the doamin one is www to non-www and another one is non-www to www. Add the rules in .htaccess file

When you have open the websites on browser that page redirect to http://host2hostname.com/cgi-sys/movingpage.cgi and shows below content,

Usually you get this error while installing joomla in linux server, Error: Magic Quotes GPC Off

This is one way of protect Website files, Directories and images by hacking.If we have disabled listing files, nobody can able to view your potentially sensitive web site files on webpage.