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?

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Answer 1

Try this:

    #The following line is enough for .js and .css
    AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/xml application/xhtml+xml text/css   application/xml application/rss+xml application/atom_xml application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php application/x-httpd-fastphp text/html

    #The following lines are to avoid bugs with some browsers
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html


# BEGIN EXPIRES

    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType application/x-icon "access plus 1 year"

# END EXPIRES


    
        Header append Vary Accept-Encoding
    
    
        Header set Cache-Control "public"
    
    
        Header set Cache-Control "public"
    
    
        Header set Cache-Control "private"
    
    
        Header set Cache-Control "private, must-revalidate"