Magento Htaccess Optimization

.htaccess

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################## Creare's Magento .htaccess File #################
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##### Block unwanted Bots that clog the server #####

	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MJ12bot
	RewriteRule .* - [F]
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 80legs [NC]
	RewriteRule ^ - [F]

##### Add support for SVG Graphics and CSS3 Pie #####

	AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
	AddEncoding gzip svgz
	AddType text/x-component .htc
	DirectoryIndex index.php 

##### Domain-specific PHP Settings #####

<IfModule mod_php5.c> 
	php_value memory_limit 512M 
	php_value max_execution_time 18000 
	php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off 
	php_flag session.auto_start off 
	php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off 
	php_flag zend.ze1_compatibility_mode Off 
</IfModule>

##### Necessary redirects and rewrites for search engines #####

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
	#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
	
	##### Redirect away from /index.php and /home	
	##### Warning: This index.php rewrite will prevent Magento 
	##### Connect from working. Simply comment out the 	
	##### following two lines of code when using Connect.
	##### Please note - http://www. if not using www simply use http://
	
	RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
	RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
  
  	##### Please note - http://www. if not using www simply use http://
	redirect 301 /home http://www.yourdomain.com
	
	Options +FollowSymLinks
	RewriteEngine on
	RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
	RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
</IfModule>


##### mod_deflate compresses your output to lower the file size being sent to the client #####

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
	SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
	Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
	php_flag zlib.output_compression on
</IfModule>

<Files *.php>
	SetOutputFilter DEFLATE 
</Files>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
	SSLOptions StdEnvVars 
</IfModule>


##### Header Directives #####

<ifModule mod_headers.c>
	Header unset ETag
	Header unset Last-Modified
</ifModule>


##### disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload #####

<IfModule mod_security.c> 
	SecFilterEngine Off 
	SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule> 

	
##### Enable apache served files compression #####

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	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
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
	SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
	Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</IfModule>


##### Mod gzip and caching for improved site speed #####

<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>


##### Default expires headers for all file types  #####
##### Not recommended for development environment #####

<ifModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive On
	ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
	ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
	ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
	ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 216000 seconds"
</ifModule> 


##### Mime Type Caching #####

<IfModule mod_mime.c>

	##### AUDIO #####
    AddType audio/mp4 m4a f4a f4b
    AddType audio/ogg oga ogg

  	##### JAVASCRIPT #####
    # Normalize to standard type (it's sniffed in IE anyways):
    # http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4329#section-7.2
    AddType application/javascript						js jsonp
    AddType application/json							json

  	##### VIDEO #####
    AddType video/mp4                                   mp4 m4v f4v f4p
    AddType video/ogg                                   ogv
    AddType video/webm                                  webm
    AddType video/x-flv                                 flv

  	##### WEB FONTS #####
    AddType application/font-woff                       woff
    AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject               eot

    ##### Browsers usually ignore the font MIME types	#####
    ##### and sniff the content, however, Chrome shows 	#####
    ##### a warning if other MIME types are used for 	#####
	##### the following fonts.							#####
    AddType application/x-font-ttf                      ttc ttf
    AddType font/opentype                               otf
	

  	##### OTHER #####
    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                             atom rdf rss xml
    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

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_mime.c>
    AddCharset utf-8 .atom .css .js .json .rss .vtt .webapp .xml
</IfModule>


##### Disable ETags http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags #####

	FileETag None


##### Prevent character encoding issues from server overrides #####

	AddDefaultCharset Off
	#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
	
	
##### Force IE8 compatibility when using IE8+         #####
##### May cause issues within Windows Mobile Browsers ##### 
	
	BrowserMatch MSIE best-standards-support
	Header set X-UA-Compatible IE=8 env=best-standards-support
	
	
##### By default allow all access #####

	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all