custom htaccess for speed, cache, gzip, ETags, etc

.htaccess

### ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES ###
SetEnv PHP_VER 5
SetEnv REGISTER_GLOBALS 0

### MAIN DEFAULTS ###
Options All -Indexes
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

### MIME TYPES ###
AddType video/x-flv .flv
AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf
AddType image/x-icon .ico
AddType image/svg+xml svg
AddType text/cache-manifest .manifest


#=============================================================================#
#          HEADERS, CACHING AND OPTIMIZATION
#=============================================================================#
#-> http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/cache-control-http-headers-vt65.html
#      300   5 M
#     2700  45 M
#     3600   1 H
#    54000  15 H
#    86400   1 D
#   518400   6 D
#   604800   1 W
#  1814400   3 W
#  2419200   1 M
# 26611200  11 M
# 29030400   1 Y (never expire)
###########

#### HEADER CACHING ####
#-> http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/caching-using-header-vt2.html
<FilesMatch "\.(flv|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico)$">
   Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|pdf|swf)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|txt)$">
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(pl|php|cgi|spl|scgi|fcgi)$">
  Header unset Cache-Control
</FilesMatch>

### ALTERNATE EXPIRES CACHING ###
#-> htaccesselite.com/d/use-htaccess-to-speed-up-your-site-discussion-vt67.html
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A29030400
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A29030400
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A29030400
ExpiresByType text/css A29030400
ExpiresByType text/html A29030400
<FilesMatch "\.(pl|php|cgi|spl|scgi|fcgi)$">
  ExpiresActive Off
</FilesMatch>

#compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

#Cache navigateur # 1 semaine
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
	mod_gzip_static_suffix .gz
	AddEncoding gzip .gz
	AddEncoding gzip .gzip
	mod_gzip_on YES
	mod_gzip_handle_methods GET
	mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
	mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
	mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
	mod_gzip_send_vary On
	mod_gzip_update_static No
	mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
	mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 250
	mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 1048576
	mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000
	mod_gzip_min_http 1000
	mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
	mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js$
	mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css$
	mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^application/pdf$
	mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/
	mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^application/x-javascript$
	mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
	mod_gzip_item_include file .html$
	mod_gzip_item_include file .pl$
	mod_gzip_item_include file .cgi$
	mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
	mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$
	mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/postscript$
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault A29030400
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon A29030400
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A29030400
    ExpiresByType application/javascript A29030400
	ExpiresByType text/javascript A29030400
    ExpiresByType text/css A29030400
    ExpiresByType image/gif A29030400
    ExpiresByType image/png A29030400
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg A29030400
    ExpiresByType text/plain A29030400
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A29030400
    ExpiresByType video/x-flv A29030400
    ExpiresByType application/pdf A29030400
    ExpiresByType text/html A29030400

	ExpiresActive On
	ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 29030400 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/xhtml+xml "access plus 29030400 seconds"
</IfModule>

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, private"
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, private, must-revalidate"

Header unset ETag

Header unset Last-Modified
</ifModule>

FileETag None

nice job.
max-age=-1 is a good pratice for 'never expires' ?

Hi Denis. Thanks. Max-age=-1 is not a valid directive.