Tweak .htaccess

[buzzdee]

Hi,

I tried to speed up my website using .htaccess tweaks, as e.g. described on Googles PageSpeed site, but...
none of my entries worked :-(

My provider told me that adding

AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml 
... and so on...

will do the stuff for compressing file-types, but it doesnt work. Maybe there's a conflict with an entry of my htaccess ? I don't know...

Even the tweaks for server caching, like

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
...and so on...

don't work.

So, maybe I have a big problem in my htaccess? And to be honest, I don't exactly understand these entries - maybe you could describe just in one sentence each, what these entries in my .htaccess exactly mean?

# Disable server signature
ServerSignature Off

# Disable directory listing (-indexes), Multiviews (-MultiViews) and enable Follow system links (+FollowSymLinks)
Options -Indexes
Options -MultiViews
Options +FollowSymLinks

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine On
   
    # If you have problems with the rewrite rules remove the "#" from the following RewriteBase line
    # You will also have to change the path to reflect the path to your Chevereto installation
    # If you are using alias is most likely that you will need this.
    #RewriteBase /

        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.buzzpics.de
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.buzzpics.de/$1 [L,R=301]
   
    # 404 images
    # If you want to have your own fancy "image not found" image remove the "#" from RewriteCond and RewriteRule lines
    # Make sure to apply the correct paths to reflect your current installation
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule images/.+\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp) - [NC,L,R=404]
    #RewriteRule images/.+\.(gif|jpe?g|png|bmp) content/system/404.gif [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(css|js|html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml|asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpe?g|jpe|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|swf|tar|tif|tiff|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ [NC]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]
   
   
</IfModule>

Could you please give me a hint, what I can do? What entries do you have in your htaccess file ?

 

[Rodolfo]

Not to be rude but, there are countless guides and references that will tell you what does those .htaccess rules. Now, regarding deflate, it will work only if you have mod_deflated installed. More info here: https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/develo...data-compression-using-the-mod-deflate-module

And same thing for mod_expires, it must be enabled in the server.

 

[Rodolfo]

Also, don't believe 100% in the pagespeed test. Most false positives are in the render block javascript section, you simply can't trust that thing.

 

[buzzdee]

Thanks Rodolfo, I know that there are countless guides... my provider told me that mod_deflated is installed and the entry mentioned above will work. But it does not. So, I tried to find the error in the existing entries, as I thought there may be a conflict.

 

[Rodolfo]

Well, if it helps you need to place those declarations before the RewriteCond statements