htaccess tutorial tips for wordpress #redirect #leverage browser cache #Gzip #KeepAlive

All .htaccess tutorial tips for WordPress and other platforms. rewrite, redirect 301, 302, permalink rewriting, keep alive, gzip leverage browser cache 301 redirection using .htaccess and other etc.

htaccess only for apache server. for nginx, you have to convert this rules in nginx terms. (it quite easy)

Enable Gzip (mod_deflate )
Redirection (mod rewrite)
Browser caching (mod header)
Keep alive

these rules applies for whole server, however you can add it wordpress directory if your hosting provider not enabled by default. (note that module must be installed by server admin or hosting providers)

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enable gzip compression htaccess wordpress

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  # Compress HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Text, XML and fonts
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-truetype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-font-ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/otf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/ttf
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/x-icon
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/javascript
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
  AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml

</IfModule>

enable leverage browser cache by editing .Htaccess

simply copy this code paste your in .htaccess by using cpanel or filezilla directly from your wordpress dashboard using yoast plugin

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresByType image/jpg “access 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/gif “access 1 year”

ExpiresByType image/png “access 1 year”

ExpiresByType text/css “access 1 month”

ExpiresByType application/pdf “access 1 month”

ExpiresByType text/x–javascript “access 1 month”

ExpiresByType application/x–shockwave–flash “access 1 month”

ExpiresByType image/x–icon “access 1 year”

ExpiresDefault “access 2 days”

## EXPIRES CACHING ##

how to enable keep alive using htaccess in wordpress website?

just add this code to your .htaccess

<ifModule mod_headers.c>

Header set Connection keep-alive

</ifModule>

what is keep alive?

it’s communication between browser and server.

Why we want use keep alive?

To reduce server load by keep living the loaded resources in browser.

WordPress permalink redirection using htaccess

permalink post_id.html to post name

http://www.airtel.in/24784.html to http://www.airtel.in/tumkur-grain-merchants-cooperative-bank-limited-sdn-branch-ifsc-code-tgmb0000005-with-address-phone-number/

via: http://www.airtel.in/?p=24784

first of all, we have to redirect http://www.airtel.in/24784.html to http://www.airtel.in/?p=24784

RedirectMatch 301 /29954.html(.*) /?p=29954$1

RedirectMatch 301 /[0-9].html(.*) /?p=[0-9]$1

RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+).html(.*) /?p=([0-9]+)$1

RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+).html(.*) /?p=$1 (worked)

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RedirectMatch 301 /([0-9]+).html(.*) /?p=$1

then 2nd url will automatically redirects to present URL.

Matching cases

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$ /$1

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^([0-9]+)$.html /?p=([0-9]+)$1

This would redirect the following URL:

?
1
http://www.mydomain.com/parts/spanner-1996.html
To:

?
1
http://www.mydomain.com/metal/parts/spanner-1996.html

subdomain to main domain redirection 301

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.fff.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.maindomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

.htaccess rewrite rules

you can on off

.htaccess rewrite rules by using rewrite engine on or off

www to Non www redirection 301

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourwebsite.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourwebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Non www to www redirection 301

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^http://www.yourwebsite.com
RewriteRule (.*) yourwebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Redirecting to error page.

errorDocument 400 http://www.youwebsite.com/error.html
errorDocument 401 http://www.youwebsite.com/error.html
errorDocument 404 http://www.youwebsite.com/error.html
errorDocument 500 http://www.youwebsite.com/error.html

robots.txt tutorial.