The 4 Parts of a Premo WordPress HTACCESS File

Over the years working with WordPress, I’ve found a lot of good reasons to get used to modifying the HTACCESS file. The top four reasons to modify the HTACCESS include:

• Setting up 301 Redirects in the HTACCESS for WordPress
• Enabling Expires Handlers for images in the HTACCESS for WordPress
• Enabling Gzip Compression for WordPress code and texts
• Unsetting ETags

If you’re curious, read up on why you want Expires Handlers, Gzip Compression, and not ETags.

Please note! Your HTACCESS file is very important and sensitive. If you edit it, it may result in your site malfunctioning. Be sure that you duplicate the original file to ensure that you can restore your site if something should go wrong.

Plus – if your HTACCESS file is already modified (some plugins modify the HTACCESS file), you’ll need to be careful that you’re not duplicating commands or interrupting commands (again – backup before you make changes!).

If you do something different than me. Comment below – what’s in your HTACCESS?

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# Premo WordPress HTACCESS
# Author & URI: James Valeii, Jryven.com
# Description: IfMod for Permalinks, Expires Header for Images, GZip for Texts and Codes, Unset ETags
# Version: 1.0
# License: GPL2
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# Optional - Model for 301 Redirections. To Use Redirections, Copy the Redirect line without the pound
# sign into the HTACCESS before "BEGIN WordPress" and adjust 'domain' 'sub(domain)' and 'slug' accordingly.
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# Redirect 301 /sub/slug http://www.domain.com/sub/slug
# Redirect 301 /slug http://www.domain.com/slug/
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# BEGIN WordPress
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RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
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# Expire images header
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ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/ico A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A2592000
ExpiresByType text/javascript A2592000
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# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
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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
AddType x-font/otf .otf
AddType x-font/ttf .ttf
AddType x-font/eot .eot
AddType x-font/woff .woff
AddType image/x-icon .ico
AddType image/png .png
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# Unset ETags
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Header unset ETag
FileETag None
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# END WordPress
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