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Yin Yang
Yin Yang

Reputation: 1806

Setting cache-control max-age using Apache not working

I'm trying to setup HTTP Caching for my website. Following is my configuration settings

# 1 YEAR
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|svg|woff|eot|ttf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|png|gif|css|js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>

Does it make a difference if I place this in my <VirtualHost> settings or outside it? I've placed it inside the <VirtualHost>.

I tried checking the HTTP response for one of the png image using redbot.org and this is what it returned.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 09:28:33 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
    Last-Modified: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 05:43:32 GMT
    ETag: 1409031812.69
    Content-Length: 23907
    Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
    Connection: Keep-Alive
    Content-Type: image/png

Why is there no Cache-Control max-age header tag?

I also checked using the Google PageSpeed Insights and it still says expiration not specified for all the files.

Did I miss something?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2841

Answers (1)

Yin Yang
Yin Yang

Reputation: 1806

The .htaccess file was not being taken into account due to some missing configuration settings in my apache2.conf file. Making the required changes in the conf file solved the issue.

Upvotes: -2

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