HTML5 Boilerplate .htaccess

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Hi Guys,

Using Bedrock, loving it, you lot rule!

One question - is it recommended to use the HTML5 Boilerplate .htaccess Wordpress Plugin?

I’m still using Apache because I’m like totally uncool.

I tried installing it but it doesn’t seem to work. Is it me?

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There’s not really a recommendation. Just up to you.

First thing to check is if the rules are actually added to your .htaccess file.

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I’ve checked, and the rules are not there. I’ve got the standard wordpress rewrites in there, plus some other adaptive image stuff.

I tried removing my .htaccess file completely before installing the plugin but that didn’t work either.

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Could you please try disabling the other .htaccess altering plugins and see if that makes any difference.

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I see that Roots recommends W3 Total Cache but also provides this .htaccess file (which as of this writing needs to be updated to match the H5Bp version 2.6.0).

Is there a reason to use both together? If so, is there a write up about this somewhere? Using both together will cause major headaches (this happened to me the last few weeks when I didn’t realize the .htaccess was updated with everything). I’m thinking that it’s either one or the other plugin and not both, right?

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Sorry I forgot to reply to this thread,

For the record I got this working but decided not to use it any more as I’m moving to Nginx.

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You could make both work. There’s probably only a few incompatibilities.

For the record, we no longer recommend W3TC and should remove that mention of it.

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If Roots doesn’t recommend W3TC anymore, the .htaccess plugin needs to be updated to reflect this. It seems that expires headers and Etags were removed from the plugin b/c it’s recommended to use W3TC for this. At least this is what appears in the comments at the top of the htaccess file in the repository.

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