.htaccess samples

Rewrites [URL rewriting] [mod_rewrite]

• Browse to an existing file. Rewrite nothing.
• Browse to a directory. Rewrite to index.html file.

Redirects [URL redirection] [mod_rewrite]

• Browse to a file that moved permanently. Redirect to a new location: [HTTP 301]
• Browse to a file that doesn't exist. Redirect to base dir: [HTTP 302]
• Browse to a directory that doesn't exist. Redirect to base. [HTTP 302]
• Browse to a directory without an index.html file. Redirect to base dir. [HTTP 302]

Security

• HTTP Security Headers [OWASP Cheat Sheet] [F] [A+]
• Disable directory view [more]

Performance [speed test]

• Serve content without compression
• Serve content on-the-fly with deflate
• Serve content pre-compressed with gzip
• Serve content pre-compressed with Brotli

Errors [more]

• Show a default Apache error page. [HTTP 400]
• Show a custom error message. [HTTP 401]
• Show a custom error page. [HTTP 404]
• Show a custom error page that exposes internals. Use with caution! [HTTP 200]

Encoding

• Use always in-document character encoding in HTML [more] [verify]
• By default RFC Http/1.1 encodes ISO-8859-1 [RFC 2616] [verify]
• Use UTF-8 charset encoding to HTTP header in addition [more] [verify]

Misc

• Output phpinfo() [more]
• Custom directory view [more]