Here are some sample lines to add to your .htaccess file to help WordPress run a little more smooth. Each line is commented so is pretty self explanatory.
#increase the memory limit available to PHP php_value memory_limit 128M # give PHP scripts longer to execute php_value max_execution_time 400 #set the uplaod file size to 20M php_value post_max_size 20M php_value upload_max_filesize 20M #while writing code display errors, turn this one off when your live php_value display_errors on
This should go below the code that WordPress automatically generates that looks like this.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
…..And use this to turn on browser caching
## EXPIRES CACHING ## <IfModule mod_expires.c> ExpiresActive On # Good for one month ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000 ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000 ExpiresByType image/png A2592000 ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000 ExpiresByType text/plain A2592000 ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A2592000 # Good for one week ExpiresByType application/x-javascript M604800 ExpiresByType text/css M604800 ExpiresByType text/html M604800 ExpiresDefault A2592000 </IfModule> ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
… and finally ensure that you set mime types configured in your hosting environment so the above actually works
AddType image/gif .gif AddType image/jpeg .jpg AddType image/png .png AddType image/svg+xml .svg AddType image/svg+xml .svgz
Ok, I’ve copy and paste a few extra things into this post and I’ve picked them up on my travels, a bit of an explanation about the browser caching is in this newer post.
After 10 other sites – YOU had the right answer here… thank you. Nobody talks about WHERE to put the new text and you actually included notes: thank you. Well done. Thrashing my brains out over this at RackSpace under Cloudsites. Works now.
Hi Randy, glad to help out!
PS
Another little trick that I use is to override the PHP settings on the server.
The following code turns on error reporting, you place it in the PHP file or even the function you’re working on to get PHP to display the errors for you.
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set(‘display_errors’, ’1′);
Found this useful post on htaccess, if you’re looking for more general things for htaccess you’ll be interested – 10+ things you can do with htaccess
Thanks! This explanation really helped me out.
Cool!