diff --git a/src/_h5ai/.htaccess b/src/_h5ai/.htaccess
index d1f82f7a..9540a5a2 100644
--- a/src/_h5ai/.htaccess
+++ b/src/_h5ai/.htaccess
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ DirectoryIndex index.html
# cache.manifest needs re-requests in FF 3.6 (thx Remy ~Introducing HTML5)
ExpiresByType text/cache-manifest "access plus 0 seconds"
- # your document html
+ # your document html
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
# data
diff --git a/src/_h5ai/apache/h5ai-footer.html b/src/_h5ai/apache/h5ai-footer.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 72b45348..00000000
--- a/src/_h5ai/apache/h5ai-footer.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-
-
-
-
-