.htaccess - Caching and gzip compression by htaccess

Question

Can someone provide me with an optimized .htaccess configuration that handles compression, browser caching, proxy caching, etc. for a typical website?

Aside from my visitors, I'm also trying to make Google PageSpeed happy. I wanna use caching and gzip compression through .htaccess please help me with its code!

I want to cache icon,pdf,flv,jpg,png,gif,js,css,swf files for long time

I want to cache xml,txt files for 2 Days

I want to cache html files for 2 Days

And I wanna compress my html,txt,css,js,php files because those have large file size.

Is there any way to gzip images using .htaccess?

Answer 1

# 480 weeks
<FilesMatch ".(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 2 DAYS
<FilesMatch ".(xml|txt)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

# 2 HOURS
<FilesMatch ".(html|htm)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
  mod_gzip_on Yes
  mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
  mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|php|pl)$
  mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*
  mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
  mod_gzip_item_exclude rspheader ^Content-Encoding:.*gzip.*
</ifModule>