htaccess boilerplate

htaccess cheat sheet

### charset
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

### directory index
DirectoryIndex index.html

### avoid directory listing
Options -Indexes

### default language
DefaultLanguage en

### add file types (https://gist.github.com/asakasinsky/6126409)
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddType text/html .html
  AddType application/json .json
  # AddType text/plain .txt
  # AddType text/markdown .md
  # AddType application/xml .xml

  AddType text/css .css
  AddType text/javascript .js
  
  AddType image/jpeg .jpeg .jpg .JPG
  AddType image/png .png
  AddType image/svg+xml .svg
  AddType image/x-icon .ico
  # AddType image/tiff .tiff .tif
  # AddType image/gif .gif

  AddType application/x-font-woff .woff
  AddType application/x-font-woff .woff2
  # AddType font/truetype .ttf
  # AddType font/opentype .otf
  # AddType font/eot .eot

  # AddType application/zip .zip
  # AddType application/pdf .pdf 
  # AddType application/postscript .ai .eps
  # AddType application/unityweb .unityweb

  # AddType audio/mpeg .mp3
  # AddType audio/x-wav .wav

  AddType video/mp4 .mp4
  # AddType video/webm .webm
  # AddType video/ogg .ogv
  # AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt
</IfModule>

### allow a remote host to reference files (CORS)
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  # Header Set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://localhost"
</IfModule>

### enable keep alive
<ifModule mod_headers.c>
  # Header set Connection keep-alive
</ifModule>

### compress text file responses
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

  <FilesMatch "\.(txt|html|md|css|js|json|xml)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>

  <FilesMatch "\.(woff|woff2|ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

### set browser caching
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On

  # ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 day"
  ExpiresByType application/json "access 1 day"
  # ExpiresByType text/plain "access 1 day"
  # ExpiresByType text/markdown "access 1 day"
  # ExpiresByType application/xml "access 1 day"

  ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access 1 month"
  
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType image/tiff "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"

  ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType font/truetype "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType font/opentype "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType font/eot "access 1 year"

  # ExpiresByType application/zip "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType application/pdf  "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType application/postscript "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType application/unityweb "access 1 year"

  # ExpiresByType audio/mpeg "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType audio/x-wav "access 1 year"

  ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType video/webm "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType video/ogg "access 1 year"
  # ExpiresByType video/quicktime "access 1 year"

  ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>

### rewrite
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine on

  # some servers require this
  # RewriteBase /
  
  # remove www and add https
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com$ [NC]
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

  # force https
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

  # redirect favicon, sitemap, robots, ....
  # RewriteRule ^favicon\.ico$ /path/2/favicon/favicon.ico [L]
  # RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ /path/2/sitemap/sitemap.xml [L]
  # RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ /path/2/robots/robots.txt [L]

</IfModule>