i.e. if I do ExpiresByType application/msword "access plus 5 seconds" it doesn't actually work. Nor does <FilesMatch "\.(doc|pdf)$">
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Baljeet Nijjhar < baljeet.nijj...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > That works when distinguishing between html and images. However, I suspect > my problem is more subtle. If the page contains an attachment (content-type > = application/msword for example, rather than text/html) I need to set a > different cache-control header. So are FilesMatch and ExpiresByType looking > at the content-type header value and comparing, or something else? > Also, if I were to set my Header selectively in my application code for > some cases, can I set my gloabl type settings in httpd.conf to only set the > Header if it is not already present? That would help .. > thanks, Baljeet. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Philip Wigg <p...@philipwigg.co.uk>wrote: > >> On 10 March 2010 15:03, Baljeet Nijjhar <baljeet.nijj...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Hi >> > I'd like to try and configure the following outcomes in my httpd.conf: >> > a) for static images, stylesheets, javascript, Cache-Control:max-age >> > 3600 and Expires: + 3600. This I can easily do by using the >> ExpiresByType >> > directive for these content types (text/css, application/x-javascript, >> > image/* etc) >> > b) for html, I want to set Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store (and >> probably >> > Pragma to no-cache or Expires to -1 to prevent HTTP 1.0 from caching). >> I'd >> > rather not use max-age=0 because that will download my pages to the >> user's >> > browser. >> > I can't see how to do b) i.e. define a different Header based on the >> > content-type which seems to be text/html. I've tried enclosing my Header >> set >> > command within a <FilesMatch "\.(htm|html)$"> directive, but this >> doesn't >> > seem to match my HTML. >> > Has anyone got any ideas please? Do I need to add a Directory of where >> my >> > application is? (I'm using a proxy server and my application server is >> on >> > another machine, so I don't know how easily I can do this, if needed). >> >> One way might be to use the Header directive to set 'Cache-Control: >> no-cache' as the default and then override it for selected file types >> that you do want to cache? Something like:- >> >> Header set Cache-Control "no-cache" >> >> <FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js|css|swf)$"> >> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600" >> </FilesMatch> >> >> -- Phil >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> >> >
