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Enable And Disable Directory Browsing

Cesar Quinteros — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:32:15 +0000

When setting up the structure to my website that includes private and public files I often found a need for a way for certain folders NOT to display a list of its containing files. After searching the web I found it well as a nice link with some .htaccess know how.

Removing Indexes

Options -Indexes

Adding Indexes

Options +Indexes

As simple as that! Here is the link I found that might come in pretty handy.
http://www.hostingmanual.net/other/htfun.shtml

Adding Expire Headers to Htaccess File

Cesar Quinteros — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:29:48 +0000

Adding expire headers is a good way to keep client requests to a minimum. Without them every time the client’s browser requests a file the server has to serve it. Adding expire headers, in this case to the .htaccess file, keeps a cached version of the requested file on the client’s computer in case it is requested again. For example, you have an image gallery. The client clicks on a picture, the picture is served to them, fine. Now when the client clicks the link at the top of your page to return to the main gallery page, ALL those thumbnails of the large images are requested from the server. With this code the client merely retrieves the same images he originally saw again, without the extra server requests. Nice isn’t it?
Header unset Last-Modified Header set Expires "Fri, 10 Jun 2050 00:00:00 GMT" Header set Cache-Control "public, no-transform"

Turning on Gzip Compression

Cesar Quinteros — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:14:47 +0000

Gzipping files could be very useful when trying to speed up your website.

Though I do not have the whole .htaccess thing down yet. I have found some code that simply works. As always I post it for myself as well as anyone who needs it.

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE