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htaccess Builder & Optimizer — Generate Apache Config Online

Generated .htaccess
# Generated .htaccess — review before deploying to production

# Enable Rewrite Engine
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /

  # Canonical URL: https://example.com
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.example\.com$ [NC,OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
  RewriteRule ^ https://example.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

  # SPA fallback — serve index.html for client-side routes
  RewriteRule ^index\.html$ - [L]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^\/server\/
  RewriteRule ^ index.html [L]
</IfModule>

# Security Headers
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header always set X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"
  Header always set X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"
  Header always set X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"
  Header always set Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin"
  Header unset Server
  Header unset X-Powered-By
</IfModule>

# Compression
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  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>

# Browser Caching
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On

  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/webp "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType video/mpeg "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
  ExpiresByType font/ttf "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/otf "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType font/woff2 "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType application/font-woff "access plus 1 year"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 0 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 0 seconds"
</IfModule>

# Cache-Control Headers
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  <FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|webp|svg|css|js|woff|woff2|ttf|otf|mp4|mpeg)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public, immutable"
  </FilesMatch>

  <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
  </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# Prevent access to sensitive files
<FilesMatch "^(\.htaccess|\.htpasswd|\.env|\.git|package\.json|package-lock\.json|composer\.json|composer\.lock)$">
  Require all denied
</FilesMatch>

# SPA: let client router handle unknown paths
ErrorDocument 404 /index.html

# MIME Types
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddType application/javascript js
  AddType text/css css
  AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
  AddEncoding gzip svgz
</IfModule>

# Disable directory browsing
Options -Indexes

# Enable FollowSymLinks
Options +FollowSymLinks

# Default charset
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
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