Some .htaccess tips and tricks

.htaccess

# Source internet
# Use at your own risk

# Ovrride Default index.php
DirectoryIndex home.php

# prevent access to some files
<FilesMatch "^(wp-config.php|readme.html|license.txt|README.md|.gitignore|.gitattributes|.htaccess|error_log)">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>


#Change Charset and Language headers
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
DefaultLanguage en-US


#Set default time zone
SetEnv IN Asia/Calcutta


# Disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes


# Cache these type of files for 7 days
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|ico|gif|css|js|eot|otf|tt[cf]|woff|woff2|svg|mp4|webm|ogv)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, must-revalidate"
    Header unset ETag
    FileETag None
</FilesMatch>


# Explicitly disable caching for scripts and other dynamic files
<FilesMatch ".(pl|php|cgi|spl|scgi|fcgi)$">
Header unset Cache-Control
</FilesMatch>


# Java script compression
<FilesMatch "\.js$">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule (.*)\.js$ $1\.js.gz [L]
ForceType text/javascript
</FilesMatch>


# Java script - vary accept encoding
<FilesMatch "\.js\.gz$">
ForceType text/javascript
Header set Content-Encoding gzip
Header set Vary Accept-Encoding
</FilesMatch>


# Stop auto append files by webhosting
<FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
php_value auto_append_file none
</FilesMatch>


#Redirecting non www URL to www URL -
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]


# Custom error pages
ErrorDocument 400 /error404.php
ErrorDocument 401 /error401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /error403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /error404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /error500.php


# Sisable the server signature
ServerSignature Off

# Max upload size
php_value upload_max_filesize 5M


# Enable compression on localhost
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</IfModule>


# Fix bad x-ua meta tag
<FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|php)$">
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        BrowserMatch MSIE ie
        Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1" env=ie
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

# Serve font files
<FilesMatch ".(eot|ttf|otf|woff)">
	Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</FilesMatch>


#Enable gzip with mod_gzip
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>


# Secure directory by disabling script execution
AddHandler cgi-script .php .pl .py .jsp .asp .htm .shtml .sh .cgi
Options -ExecCGI

# mime type for web fonts
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject   eot
    AddType application/x-font-ttf          ttf ttc
    AddType font/opentype                   otf
    AddType application/x-font-woff         woff woff2
    AddType image/svg+xml                   svg svgz
    AddEncoding gzip                        svgz
</IfModule>