Configure SSL Termination with Varnish Caching and HTTP/2

To create the fastest web pages possible in a LAMP stack can be a bit tricky.  This document covers configureing blazing fast HTTPS sites on Freebsd with Apache, Varnish, Nginx, PHP, Mysql and letsencrypt.sh.  Of course you can swap out the PHP/Mysql parts as needed, or even use your own certificates instead of lets encrypt.sh as you need.

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Removing Double Redirects or Redirect Chains form .htaccess files.

If you manage and large site using mod_rewrite or ISAPI_Rewrite 3 you will eventually run into issues maintaining the rewrite rules. After doing a few redesigns or moving things around repeatedly you can end up with situations where one page redirects to another page then another and so on in a chain. This is functional but inefficient, it can have a negative effect on user experience and on SEO value, and makes everything harder to maintain. This tool is a simple script you can pass you .htaccess file through to remove all these multi-step redirects and all pages redirect immediately on the first redirect to the final destination page.

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