I've got an app that runs on a tomcat web server, and I use mod-jk on my apache web server side.
I think I've managed to configure everything to work seamlessly, I ran into issues when I wanted to cache static assets on webserver, for some reason my response headers expires is set to **1994**, these are my headers for one of the javascript files I want to server as static asset and cache it: Accept-Ranges:bytes Cache-Control:no-cache Connection:Keep-Alive Content-Encoding:gzip Content-Type:application/javascript Date:Fri, 29 May 2015 23:18:25 GMT ETag:W/"604348-1432950682000" Expires:Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100 Last-Modified:Fri, 29 May 2015 23:18:25 GMT Server:Apache Transfer-Encoding:chunked Vary:Accept-Encoding Per the instructions I found on [this website][1] I tried to set it inside my virtual host, like in the example below : <VirtualHost *:80> Alias /assets /opt/www/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/assets ServerName dev.myurl.com ServerAlias anotherone.myurl.com ErrorLog "|/opt/www/apache/2.2.25/bin/rotatelogs /opt/www/logs/apache/app/_error_log-%Y-%m-%d-%H 86400" CustomLog "|/opt/www/apache/2.2.25/bin/rotatelogs /opt/www/logs/apache/app/_access_log-%Y-%m-%d-%H 86400" common JkMount /* workerdev #--- Disabled Trace ------- RewriteEngine On RewriteOptions inherit #---------------------------- ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 months" </VirtualHost> [1]: http://www.simonwhatley.co.uk/how-to-set-an-expires-header-in-apache This is my first time doing something like this, so I m not sure what else do I need to do, and why is there this default `Expires`. It has been like 9 or 10 hours of different experimenting and none of it worked. Any suggestions what else could I try? **Additional details:** It seems like that I'm able to add a http header or but can't override the existing value, by adding this to the `VirtualHost` Header unset Cache-Control Header add Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public" Header unset Expires Header add Expires "Thu, 01 Dec 2015 16:00:00 GMT" I get this for the response headers : Cache-Control:no-cache Cache-Control:max-age=290304000, public Expires:Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT Expires:Thu, 01 Dec 2015 16:00:00 GMT Very odd right? Where else could this header values be set from?