### Defaults
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
DefaultLanguage en-US
ServerSignature Off
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

Options All -Indexes
Options -MultiViews 
Options +FollowSymlinks


### Force the latest IE version
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=Edge,chrome=1"
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css|gif|png|jpe?g|pdf|xml|oga|ogg|m4a|ogv|mp4|m4v|webm|svg|svgz|eot|ttf|otf|woff|ico|webp|appcache|manifest|htc|crx|xpi|safariextz|vcf)$" >
Header unset X-UA-Compatible
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>


<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Vary User-Agent
</IfModule>


### Rewrites Engine
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
</IfModule>


### Redirects

# Redirect to non-WWW
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

# Redirect to WWW
#<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
#RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\..+$ [NC]
#RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
#</IfModule>


### Redirect Index to root
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}  ^$
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ / [R=301,L]


### Compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

<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>

<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 $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>
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/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</IfModule>
</IfModule>


### Caching
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault                          "access plus 1 year"

ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest       "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/html                 "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType text/xml                  "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/xml           "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/json          "access plus 0 seconds"
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml       "access plus 1 hour"
ExpiresByType application/atom+xml      "access plus 1 hour"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon              "access plus 1 year" 
ExpiresByType image/gif                 "access plus 1 year"
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"
ExpiresByType video/webm                "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/x-component          "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/truetype             "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType font/opentype             "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff   "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml             "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css                  "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/javascript    "access plus 1 year"

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
</IfModule>


### MIME Types
AddType application/javascript         js
AddType audio/ogg                      oga ogg
AddType audio/mp4                      m4a
AddType video/ogg                      ogv
AddType video/mp4                      mp4 m4v
AddType video/webm                     webm
AddType     image/svg+xml              svg svgz 
AddEncoding gzip                       svgz
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject  eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf     ttf ttc 
AddType font/opentype                  otf
AddType application/x-font-woff        woff
AddType image/x-icon                   ico
AddType image/webp                     webp
AddType text/cache-manifest            appcache manifest
AddType text/x-component               htc
AddType application/x-chrome-extension crx
AddType text/x-vcard                   vcf


### Limiting file upload size
LimitRequestBody 10240000


### Increase cookie security
<IfModule php5_module>
php_value session.cookie_httponly true
</IfModule>


### Deny access to sensitive files
<FilesMatch "\.(htaccess|psd|log|ini)$">
Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>

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