.htaccess

# follow symlinks & disallow directory listing
# note: your hosting company might not allow these directives to be set. In that case,
# you should either find another hosting company (advised) or remove the line below.
Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes

# file etags (used when comparing local cached file to server file)
FileETag MTime Size

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
	# nice urls
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteBase /

	# forbidden folders
	RewriteRule .*\.gitignore - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/cached_templates - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/compiled_templates - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/config - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/locale - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/logs - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/navigation/.*\.php - [F]
	RewriteRule frontend/cache/search - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/compiled_templates - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/config - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/cronjobs - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/locale - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/logs - [F]
	RewriteRule backend/cache/navigation - [F]

	# backend is an existing folder, but it should be handled as all urls
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/backend/$
	RewriteRule . index.php [NC,L]

	# handle urls
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^$
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
	RewriteRule . index.php [NC,L]

	# set environment variable to let PHP know that urls are being rewritten
	RewriteRule .* - [E=MOD_REWRITE:1]
</IfModule>

# file caching in browser
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
	ExpiresActive On
	<FilesMatch "\.(ico|gif|jpe?g|png|svg|svgz|js|css|swf|ttf|otf|woff|eot)$">
		ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month" 
	</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

# gzip on Apache 2
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml text/javascript text/css application/x-javascript application/xhtml+xml application/javascript

	# these browsers do not support deflate
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html 
	BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
	BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

	SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force
</IfModule>

# gzip on Apache 1
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
    mod_gzip_on Yes

    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/xhtml+xml$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/xml$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/css$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/html$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/javascript$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/plain$
    mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/xml$
    mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/

    # browser issues
    mod_gzip_item_exclude reqheader "User-agent: Mozilla/4.0[678]"
</IfModule>