Backup indeed!

Just had an annoying little episode with billsaysthis.com. I’m playing with a beta of some PHP software that suggests using .htaccess to password protect a particular directory. Only I was a little to quick with the enter key at one point and overwrote the .htaccess file in the webserver’s root document file (the one which serves up the homepage) and KA-BOOM! no more pages served here. Of course I had no backup and couldn’t remember the stupid include file syntax either. How annoying!