Great Apache 2.4 VirtualHost template
Great Apache 2.4 VirtualHost template for good performance setup. Standard configuration, logging, headers, compression, deflate, caching, and other stuff:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin administrator@domain.tld
ServerName domain.tld
ServerAlias www.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/domain.tld
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/domain.tld_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/domain.tld_access_log common
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|json|css|xml|gz)$">
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
## GZIP COMPRESSION ##
<ifModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on Yes
mod_gzip_dechunk Yes
mod_gzip_item_include file .(html?|txt|css|js|json|php|pl)$
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>
## GZIP COMPRESSION ##
## DEFLATE ##
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
# force deflate for mangled headers
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^(Accept-EncodXng|X-cept-Encoding|X{15}|~{15}|-{15})$ ^((gzip|deflate)\s*,?\s*)+|[X~-]{4,13}$ HAVE_Accept-Encoding
RequestHeader append Accept-Encoding "gzip,deflate" env=HAVE_Accept-Encoding
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# HTML, TXT, CSS, JavaScript, JSON, XML, HTC:
<IfModule filter_module>
FilterDeclare COMPRESS
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'text/html'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'text/css'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'text/plain'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'text/xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'text/x-component'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/javascript'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/json'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/xhtml+xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/rss+xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/atom+xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/vnd.ms-fontobject'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'image/svg+xml'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'image/x-icon'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'application/x-font-ttf'"
FilterProvider COMPRESS DEFLATE "%{Content_Type} = 'font/opentype'"
FilterChain COMPRESS
FilterProtocol COMPRESS DEFLATE change=yes;byteranges=no
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_filter.c>
# Legacy versions of Apache
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css application/json
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml text/x-component
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE image/svg+xml application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf font/opentype
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
# Perhaps better to whitelist expires rules? Perhaps.
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# cache.appcache needs re-requests in FF 3.6 (thx Remy ~Introducing HTML5)
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
# Your document html
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
# Data
ExpiresByType text/xml "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType application/xml "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType application/json "access plus 4 hours"
# RSS feed
ExpiresByType application/rss+xml "access plus 1 day"
# Favicon (cannot be renamed)
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 week"
# Media: images, video, audio
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType video/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType audio/ogg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/mp4 "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/webm "access plus 1 month"
# HTC files (css3pie)
ExpiresByType text/x-component "access plus 1 month"
# Webfonts
ExpiresByType font/truetype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType font/opentype "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-font-woff "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject "access plus 1 month"
# CSS and JavaScript
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 4 hours"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 4 hours"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 4 hours"
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header append Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
# Keep alive for persistent connections
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header set Connection Keep-Alive
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
</IfModule>
FileETag None
<Directory /var/www/html/domain.tld>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>