Stefan Helander

Start embedded Youtube video at specific time

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When you share a video on Youtube you can select to start the shared video at a certain point of time in the video. Like this (selected to start at 0:40).

Youtube share with start at

This option however is not availible when embedding a video. It can be solved manually though. The embed code from Youtube looks something like this:

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/6bHSP9Ddw5w” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

To start the video from a specific time, you add the ?start=XXX where XXX is the point counted in seconds. So if the start time includes minutes you have to convert into seconds. If I want the embedded video to start at 0:40 I add ?start=40 like this:

<iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/6bHSP9Ddw5w?start=40” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>

This is the embedded video starting at 0:40 (and yes, that is me reverse driving an articulated 18 meter bus – sometimes, when I’m not busy ruling Nerdia or working as an IT consultant I walk out into the real world where I sometimes work as a bus driver and it is great fun! :)):

Stefan Helander

Error 404 when trying to password protect administrator folder in Joomla using Apache htaccess

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When protecting the administrator folder in Joomla using Apache htaccess to increase the security of the website (which by the way is a good thing to do to prevent too interested individuals to peek where they shouldn’t), you might get an error 404 message when trying to access administrator and the expected password prompt never appears.

The cause can be that the server is configured to allow user defined error pages stored in for example the error folder. If some of the error files are missing the above mentioned problem can occur. Make sure you have the correct folder name and file names for your error files.

This particular problem occured for me when I moved a Joomla site from one hosting provider to another and by mistake also replaced the error folder with the one from the old hosting provider which had a completely different file name structure for the error message files.