# Allow symbolic links to places beyond the web directory
Options FollowSymLinks
# Prevent 404s from folders that do not exist
Options -MultiViews
# Prevent folder browsing w/o a default document
Options -Indexes
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
# Allow any files that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Rewrite all other URLs to be passed to index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
# Force the latest IE version, in various cases when it may fall back to IE7 mode
# github.com/rails/rails/commit/123eb25#commitcomment-118920
# Use ChromeFrame if it's installed for a better experience for the poor IE folk
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
BrowserMatch MSIE ie
Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1" env=ie
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# gzip compression.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# html, xml, css, and js:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript text/javascript application/javascript application/json
# webfonts and svg:
<FilesMatch ".(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
# Prevent the rare cookie from appearing in a static request
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch ".(js|css|png)$" >
RequestHeader unset Set-Cookie
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
Header set cache-control: public
ExpiresActive on
# Perhaps better to whitelist expires rules? Perhaps.
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# cache.manifest needs re-reqeusts in FF 3.6 (thx Remy ~Introducing HTML5)
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
# your document html
ExpiresByType text/html "access"
# rss feed
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 hour"
# favicon (cannot be renamed)
ExpiresByType image/vnd.microsoft.icon "access plus 1 week"
# media: images, video, audio
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 year"
# webfonts
ExpiresByType font/ttf "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
# css and javascript
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>
# Since we're sending far-future expires, we don't need ETags for
# static content.
# developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
FileETag None
# use utf-8 encoding for anything served text/plain or text/html
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
# force utf-8 for a number of file formats
AddCharset utf-8 .html .css .js .xml .json .rss