.htaccess

#
#   Protect .htaccess file
#
<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

#
#   Disable directory browsing
#
Options All -Indexes

#   TIP: check out these header settings with curl -I <url> (fetches headers only).
#
#   This section sets up the cacheing for various types of files (in secs).
#   http://www.askapache.com/hacking/speed-site-caching-cache-control.html
#
# # 480 weeks
# <filesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
# Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
# </filesMatch>
#  
# # 2 DAYS
# <filesMatch "\.(xml|txt)$">
# Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
# </filesMatch>
#  
# # 2 HOURS = 60*60*2 = 7200
# # 1 MINUTE = 60
# <filesMatch "\.(html|htm|appcache)$">
# Header set Cache-Control "max-age=60, must-revalidate"
# </filesMatch>


#
#   Remove ETags to improve performance
#   http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
#
FileETag none

# 404 page 
ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>  
  Header add X-Enabled mod_gzip  
</IfModule>  
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>  
  Header add X-Enabled mod_deflate  
</IfModule>

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml 
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html 

#
#   WordPress - redirect everything (that doesn’t exist) to index.php
#
# <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
# RewriteEngine On
# RewriteBase /
# RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# </IfModule>

#
# Disable hotlinking of images and replace them with error image
#
# RewriteEngine on
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
# RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ – [F]
# RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|png)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/error_image.gif [R,L]