# From https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htaccess # Apache configuration file # httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/quickreference.html # Note .htaccess files are an overhead, this logic should be in your Apache # config if possible: httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html # Techniques in here adapted from all over, including: # Kroc Camen: camendesign.com/.htaccess # perishablepress.com/press/2006/01/10/stupid-htaccess-tricks/ # Sample .htaccess file of CMS MODx: modxcms.com # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Better website experience for IE users # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Force the latest IE version, in various cases when it may fall back to IE7 mode # github.com/rails/rails/commit/123eb25#commitcomment-118920 # Use ChromeFrame if it's installed for a better experience for the poor IE folk Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1" # mod_headers can't match by content-type, but we don't want to send this header on *everything*... Header unset X-UA-Compatible # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # CORS-enabled images (@crossorigin) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Send CORS headers if browsers request them; enabled by default for images. # developer.mozilla.org/en/CORS_Enabled_Image # blog.chromium.org/2011/07/using-cross-domain-images-in-webgl-and.html # hacks.mozilla.org/2011/11/using-cors-to-load-webgl-textures-from-cross-domain-images/ # wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/crossoriginAttribute # mod_headers, y u no match by Content-Type?! SetEnvIf Origin ":" IS_CORS Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" env=IS_CORS # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Webfont access # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Allow access from all domains for webfonts. # Alternatively you could only whitelist your # subdomains like "subdomain.example.com". Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*" # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Proper MIME type for all files # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # JavaScript # Normalize to standard type (it's sniffed in IE anyways) # tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4329#section-7.2 AddType application/javascript js jsonp AddType application/json json # Audio AddType audio/mp4 m4a f4a f4b AddType audio/ogg oga ogg # Video AddType video/mp4 mp4 m4v f4v f4p AddType video/ogg ogv AddType video/webm webm AddType video/x-flv flv # SVG # Required for svg webfonts on iPad # twitter.com/FontSquirrel/status/14855840545 AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz AddEncoding gzip svgz # Webfonts AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot AddType application/x-font-ttf ttf ttc AddType application/x-font-woff woff AddType font/opentype otf # Assorted types AddType application/octet-stream safariextz AddType application/x-chrome-extension crx AddType application/x-opera-extension oex AddType application/x-shockwave-flash swf AddType application/x-web-app-manifest+json webapp AddType application/x-xpinstall xpi AddType application/xml rss atom xml rdf AddType image/webp webp AddType image/x-icon ico AddType text/cache-manifest appcache manifest AddType text/vtt vtt AddType text/x-component htc AddType text/x-vcard vcf # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Gzip compression # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/ SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types # (for Apache versions below 2.3.7, you don't need to enable `mod_filter` # and can remove the `` and `` lines as # `AddOutputFilterByType` is still in the core directives) AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/atom+xml \ application/javascript \ application/json \ application/rss+xml \ application/vnd.ms-fontobject \ application/x-font-ttf \ application/xhtml+xml \ application/xml \ font/opentype \ image/svg+xml \ image/x-icon \ text/css \ text/html \ text/plain \ text/x-component \ text/xml # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Expires headers (for better cache control) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # These are pretty far-future expires headers. # They assume you control versioning with filename-based cache busting # Additionally, consider that outdated proxies may miscache # www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/ # If you don't use filenames to version, lower the CSS and JS to something like # "access plus 1 week". ExpiresActive on # Perhaps better to whitelist expires rules? Perhaps. ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month" # cache.appcache needs re-requests in FF 3.6 (thanks Remy ~Introducing HTML5) ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds" # Your document html ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds" # Data ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 0 seconds" ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 0 seconds" ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 0 seconds" # Feed ExpiresByType application/atom+xml "access plus 1 hour" ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 hour" # Favicon (cannot be renamed) ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week" # Media: images, video, audio ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month" # HTC files (css3pie) ExpiresByType text/x-component "access plus 1 month" # Webfonts ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month" ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month" # CSS and JavaScript ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year" ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year" # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # ETag removal # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # FileETag None is not enough for every server. Header unset ETag # Since we're sending far-future expires, we don't need ETags for # static content. # developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags FileETag None # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # UTF-8 encoding # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Use UTF-8 encoding for anything served text/plain or text/html AddDefaultCharset utf-8 # Force UTF-8 for a number of file formats AddCharset utf-8 .atom .css .js .json .rss .vtt .xml # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # A little more security # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To avoid displaying the exact version number of Apache being used, add the # following to httpd.conf (it will not work in .htaccess): # ServerTokens Prod # "-Indexes" will have Apache block users from browsing folders without a # default document Usually you should leave this activated, because you # shouldn't allow everybody to surf through every folder on your server (which # includes rather private places like CMS system folders). Options -Indexes