Corrupt htaccess?

  • My site speed is extremely slow and WebPageTest results are very bad. Consulted GoDaddy support and they said htaccess file is bad. I’ve tried renaming file and saving permalinks per instruction I’ve seen and I can’t get a new file to generate. (Also I have a multi-site hosting plan so I have numerous htaccess files but I’ve tried renaming many of them). I’m not sure where to turn next. I only have intermediate skill and don’t have a web developer. Can anyone provide guidance for me ?

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  • Thread Starter Shirley Alarie

    (@shirley-alarie)

    I have since changed two of the .htaccess files to the following, per instructions(my prior file contents are shown below for comparison). Now that I’ve changed this, will it resolve itself or is there more to be done?

    # BEGIN WordPress

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

    # END WordPress

    But my old file said:

    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
    <IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
    # Netscape 4.x has some problems…
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html

    # Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip

    # MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
    # BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

    # NOTE: Due to a bug in mod_setenvif up to Apache 2.0.48
    # the above regex won’t work. You can use the following
    # workaround to get the desired effect:
    BrowserMatch \bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html

    # Don’t compress images
    SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
    </IfModule>

    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    # Make sure proxies don’t deliver the wrong content
    Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
    </IfModule>
    </IfModule>

    Did you find a fix? Your site is speedy for me on desktop Chrome and mobile Safari. webpagetest speed scores are A’s.

    Thread Starter Shirley Alarie

    (@shirley-alarie)

    Kenny, Thank you for the reply. I don’t know how to answer your question – I changed two of my htaccess files per the prior comment, but my website admin is still running as slow as molasses. I waited over three minutes for a post to save and it never saved before I gave up. I’ve been noticing it very slow on admin for a while. So I don’t know if the htaccess issue the GoDaddy people found is resolved and I still have another issue, but there is definitely still a major issue. If you’re confirming the speed is ok now – and thank you so much for that – then perhaps the htaccess is resolved and now I need to understand what’s wrong with my admin speed. If you have pointers on that, that would be great, otherwise, I’ll start Googling that, too! Thanks again! ??

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