Caching and gzip compression by htaccess

Question

Can someone provide me with an optimized .htaccess configuration that handles compression, browser caching, proxy caching, etc. for a typical website?

Aside from my

Answer 1

# 480 weeks

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"


# 2 DAYS

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"


# 2 HOURS

Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"



  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.*