HTACCESS: Basic configuration for web projects for Apache web servers

.htaccess

# PHP

php_flag register_globals off
php_flag short_open_tag off

# Set default charset to UTF-8

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

# File types

AddType text/vcard .vcf .vcard
AddType text/xml .rss

# Directory settings

## Set directory index
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

## Hide index
Options -Indexes

# Rewrite

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

## Remove WWW prefix
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}	^www\.example\.com$		[NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)			http://example.com/$1	[L,R]
</IfModule>