We have the Best Collection of Code for your functions.php file thread, so I thought that it might be useful to create a thread for our .htaccess files.
AND PLEASE REMEMBER TO ADD ANY OF YOUR OWN SNIPPETS TO THIS LIST
These are 3 snippet for better performance, regarding Yahoo! rules:
Disable Etags:
Header unset ETag
FileETag None
Add expire headers:
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Expires "Tue, 16 Jun 2020 20:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>
Or
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 10 years"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 10 years"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 10 years"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 10 years"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 10 years"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 10 years"
Compress plain text file:
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|html|htm|php|xml)$">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</FilesMatch>
Read more about them here.
Updated:
Redirect requests to www domain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.tld [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.tld/$1 [R=301,L]
Block request to xmlrpc.php
Use this only when you don’t use remote publishing as it can prevent your blog from hacks.
RewriteRule ^(.*)xmlrpc\.php$ http://www.domain.tld [R=301,L]
Redirect all feeds to feedburner
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(FeedBurner|FeedValidator) [NC]
RewriteRule ^feed/?.*$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/feed_uri [R=301,NC,L]