diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index ec828ecdff9..424abcc99f1 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-.htaccess   text eol=lf
 source      text eol=lf diff=html linguist-language=HTML
 
-*.cgi       text eol=lf
 *.css       text eol=lf
 *.html      text eol=lf
 *.js        text eol=lf
diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index 03225eab321..00000000000
--- a/.htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-AddDefaultCharset utf-8
-AddCharset utf-8 .css .js .json
-Redirect 301 /complete.html /
-Redirect 301 /complete /
-Redirect 301 /index /
-Redirect 301 /C /multipage/
-Redirect 301 /multipage/entities.json /entities.json
-Redirect 301 /multipage/images/ /images/
-Redirect 301 /multipage/link-fixup.js /link-fixup.js
-Redirect 301 /demos/offline/clock/clock.html /demos/offline/clock/clock2.html
-ErrorDocument 404 /404.html
-
-<Files print.pdf>
-  Header add Content-Disposition "inline; filename=html-standard.pdf"
-</Files>
-
-# Previously-generated filenames for /multipage/ that do not redirect via script:
-Redirect 301 /multipage/embedded-content-0.html /multipage/embedded-content.html
-Redirect 301 /multipage/scripting-1.html /multipage/scripting.html
-Redirect 301 /multipage/tabular-data.html /multipage/tables.html
-
-# Previously-generated filenames for /multipage/ that are better to end in a 404 and let redirect
-# via script:
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html /multipage/forms.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/dnd.html /multipage/interaction.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/editing.html /multipage/interaction.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/edits.html /multipage/semantics.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/history.html /multipage/browsers.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/links.html /multipage/semantics.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/named-character-references.html /multipage/syntax.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/offline.html /multipage/browsers.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/sections.html /multipage/semantics.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html /multipage/forms.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/text-level-semantics.html /multipage/semantics.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-canvas-element.html /multipage/scripting.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-end.html /multipage/syntax.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-iframe-element.html /multipage/embedded-content.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-input-element.html /multipage/forms.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-map-element.html /multipage/embedded-content.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-video-element.html /multipage/embedded-content.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/the-xhtml-syntax.html /multipage/xhtml.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/tree-construction.html /multipage/syntax.html
-# * Redirect 301 /multipage/video.html /multipage/embedded-content.html
-
-# Intentionally deleted previously-generated filenames for /multipage/:
-Redirect 410 /multipage/section-sql.html
-
-# Images for now-deleted features
-Redirect 410 /images/contextmenu-collapsed.png
-Redirect 410 /images/contextmenu-expanded.png
-
-# Images converted to svg:
-Redirect 301 /images/content-venn.png /images/content-venn.svg
-Redirect 301 /images/parsing-model-overview.png /images/parsing-model-overview.svg
-Redirect 301 /images/sample-email-1.png /images/sample-email-1.svg
-Redirect 301 /images/sample-email-2.png /images/sample-email-2.svg
-Redirect 301 /images/sample-url.png /images/sample-url.svg
-
-# Deleted demo using CGI:
-RedirectMatch 301 ^/(demos/workers/stocks/.*)$ https://github.com/whatwg/html/tree/1332efd5e4c27ae859bf2316c6b477d77cf93716/$1
diff --git a/fonts/.htaccess b/fonts/.htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index e315674a391..00000000000
--- a/fonts/.htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-ExpiresActive on
-ExpiresDefault A6048000
-Header set Cache-Control "public"
diff --git a/images/.htaccess b/images/.htaccess
deleted file mode 100644
index 77d07d0bf52..00000000000
--- a/images/.htaccess
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-ExpiresActive on
-ExpiresDefault A604800
-Header set Cache-Control "public"