ExpressionEngine .htaccess template

.htaccess

# Standard .htaccess file

# Secure .htaccess file
<Files .htaccess>
  order allow,deny
  deny from all
</Files>

# Don't show any directory without an index file
Options -Indexes

# Dont list files in index pages
IndexIgnore *

# EE 404 page for missing pages
# May differ depending on where your template is located.
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?/404

# Simple 404 for missing files
<FilesMatch "(\.jpe?g|gif|png|bmp|css|js|flv)$">
  ErrorDocument 404 "File Not Found"
</FilesMatch>

# Mode rewrite
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  # Enable Rewrite Engine
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /

  # Redirect index.php Requests
  # ------------------------------
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST [NC]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^GET.*index\.php [NC]
  RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/system/.*
  RewriteRule (.*?)index\.php/*(.*) /$1$2 [R=301,L]

  # Remove the trailing slash to paths without an extension
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5}|/)$
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^(ACT=.*)$ [NC]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteRule ^(.+)/$ $1 [L,R=301]

  # Remove the www from the URL
  # You may be able to do this through your web host or you may not need it at all.
  #RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
  #RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

  # Force the www (not used here but listed for reference)
  # RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
  # RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

  # Exclude root files
  #RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(ACT=.*)$ [NC]
  #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (\.[a-zA-Z0-9]{1,5})$
  RewriteCond $1 !^(favicon\.ico|index\.php|admin\.php|\.html) [NC]
  # Exclude EE folders
  RewriteCond $1 !^(system|images|themes)/ [NC]
  # Exclude 3rd party folders
  RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|assets)/ [NC]
  # Remove index.php
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

  #Fix Google Analytics
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/$
  RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(gclid=.*)
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/ [L,PT]
</IfModule>

# Remove IE image toolbar (can be a reason of issues) 
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|php)$">
  Header set imagetoolbar "no"
</FilesMatch>

#add Expires
FileETag MTime Size
<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
  <filesmatch "\.(jpg|png|css|js|jpeg|woff|ttf|svg|eot|gif)$">
       ExpiresActive on
       ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
   </filesmatch>
</ifmodule>

#add gzip for static
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Gzip compression
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Force deflate for mangled headers developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/12/pushing-beyond-gzipping/
  <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
      RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
    </IfModule>
  </IfModule>

  # HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
  <IfModule filter_module>
    FilterDeclare   COMPRESS
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/html
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/css
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/plain
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $text/x-component
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/javascript
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/json
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/xhtml+xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/rss+xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/atom+xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/svg+xml
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $image/x-icon
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $application/x-font-ttf
    FilterProvider  COMPRESS  DEFLATE resp=Content-Type $font/opentype
    FilterChain     COMPRESS
    FilterProtocol  COMPRESS  DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
  </IfModule>

  <IfModule !mod_filter.c>
    # Legacy versions of Apache
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
  </IfModule>

</IfModule>