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-############################################
-## GoDaddy specific options
-
-#   Options -MultiViews
-
-## you might also need to add this line to php.ini
-##     cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
-## if it still doesn't work, rename php.ini to php5.ini
-
-############################################
-## default index file
-
-    DirectoryIndex index.php
-
-<IfModule mod_php7.c>
-
-############################################
-## adjust max execution time
-
-    php_value max_execution_time 18000
-
-############################################
-## disable automatic session start
-## before autoload was initialized
-
-    php_flag session.auto_start off
-
-############################################
-## enable resulting html compression
-
-    #php_flag zlib.output_compression on
-
-###########################################
-# disable user agent verification to not break multiple image upload
-
-    php_flag suhosin.session.cryptua off
-
-</IfModule>
-
-<IfModule mod_security.c>
-###########################################
-# disable POST processing to not break multiple image upload
-
-    SecFilterEngine Off
-    SecFilterScanPOST Off
-</IfModule>
-
-<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
-
-############################################
-## enable apache served files compression
-## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#gzip
-
-    # Insert filter on all content
-    ###SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
-    # Insert filter on selected content types only
-    #AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
-
-    # 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
-
-    # Don't compress images
-    #SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
-
-    # Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
-    #Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
-
-</IfModule>
-
-<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
-
-############################################
-## make HTTPS env vars available for CGI mode
-
-    SSLOptions StdEnvVars
-
-</IfModule>
-
-<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
-
-############################################
-## enable rewrites
-
-    Options +FollowSymLinks
-    RewriteEngine on
-
-############################################
-## you can put here your magento root folder
-## path relative to web root
-
-    #RewriteBase /magento/
-
-############################################
-## workaround for HTTP authorization
-## in CGI environment
-
-    RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
-
-<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
-    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
-
-        ############################################
-        # X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff disable content-type sniffing on some browsers.
-        Header set X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
-
-        ############################################
-        # This header forces to enables the Cross-site scripting (XSS) filter in browsers (if disabled)
-        BrowserMatch \bMSIE\s8 ie8
-        Header set X-XSS-Protection: "1; mode=block" env=!ie8
-
-    </IfModule>
-</IfModule>
-
-############################################
-## always send 404 on missing files in these folders
-
-    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(media|skin|js)/
-
-############################################
-## never rewrite for existing files, directories and links
-
-    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
-    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
-    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
-
-############################################
-## rewrite everything else to index.php
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-    RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
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-</IfModule>
-
-
-############################################
-## Prevent character encoding issues from server overrides
-## If you still have problems, use the second line instead
-
-    AddDefaultCharset Off
-    #AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
-
-<IfModule mod_expires.c>
-
-############################################
-## Add default Expires header
-## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires
-
-    ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
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-</IfModule>
-
-############################################
-## By default allow all access
-
-    Order allow,deny
-    Allow from all
-
-############################################
-## If running in cluster environment, uncomment this
-## http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags
-
-    #FileETag none
-
-###########################################
-## Deny access to cron.php
-    <Files cron.php>
-
-############################################
-## uncomment next lines to enable cron access with base HTTP authorization
-## http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html
-##
-## Warning: .htpasswd file should be placed somewhere not accessible from the web.
-## This is so that folks cannot download the password file.
-## For example, if your documents are served out of /usr/local/apache/htdocs
-## you might want to put the password file(s) in /usr/local/apache/.
-
-        #AuthName "Cron auth"
-        #AuthUserFile ../.htpasswd
-        #AuthType basic
-        #Require valid-user
-
-############################################
-
-        Order allow,deny
-        Deny from all
-
-    </Files>