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sjbuysse
sjbuysse

Reputation: 4154

.htaccess has no effect and doesn't send expires header

I added an .htaccess file to the website root folder /var/www/html It looks like this 

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

I tried adjusting theAllowOverride option, as is recommended in a lot of places. My /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf file looks like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
    <Directory /var/www/html>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>
...
</VirtualHost *:80>

And /etc/apache2/apache2.conf looks like this

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all denied
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share>
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /var/www/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require all granted
</Directory>

I'm fairly certain that the .htaccess file is just not working, because when I add random characters to the file (to try and break it and get a 500 HTTP response) it doesn't affect the website at all. What could be causing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 308

Answers (1)

Florian Heer
Florian Heer

Reputation: 714

Expiry information is created and sent by the expires module. In accordance with that the .htaccesscorrectly checks for the existence of this module. If it is not loaded, no action is taken here.

Make sure that the module is loaded correctly, the currently most compatible way to do this is with a2enmod:

:~ $ a2enmod expires

Upvotes: 1

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