# allows php on html, secondline for use on php5
#AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php .html .htm

# Specifies what file will be the directory index
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
 
# Using this code, instead of having to type in http://mysite.com/contact.php, you only need to enter http://mysite.com/contact to access that page.
# And the best part is, you can still access the page with .php on the end of it, so no old incoming links or bookmarks become orphaned as a result of this, and everyone is happy.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.htm -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.htm
 
# gzip compression.
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
 
# html, txt, css, js, json, xml, htc:
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
 
# ------------------------
# CACHING to speed up site
 
# MONTH
#<FilesMatch "\.(flv|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|swf)$">
#   Header set Cache-Control "max-age=2592000"
#</FilesMatch>
 
# WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|pdf|txt)$">
   Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"
</FilesMatch>
 
# DAY
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
   Header set Cache-Control "max-age=43200"
</FilesMatch>
 
# webfonts and svg:
<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|svg)$" >
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
 
# 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
 
# Custom 400 errors
#ErrorDocument 400 /error.php
 
# Custom 401 errors
#ErrorDocument 401 /error.php
 
# Custom 403 errors
#ErrorDocument 403 /error.php
 
# Custom 404 errors
#ErrorDocument 404 /error.php
 
# Custom 500 errors
#ErrorDocument 500 /error.php
 
# Changes http://example.com to http://www.example.com
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-domain.com/$1 [R=301]
 
# Unhide the code below to turn on a Site Down Page
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/your-domain\.php$
# RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://your-domain.com/site-down.php [R=307,L]
 
# redirect any variations of a specific character string to a specific address
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteRule ^appsupport http://www.your-domain.com/ [R]
 
# ---- # The following will redirect to the new page permanently ----# 
# Redirect 301 /index.php http://www.your-domain.com/site-down.php