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Posted by jasonjones5
jasonjones5
Courses Plus Student 5,571 Points

Cache-control headers. Confused...

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone has experience with these. I've set up my .htaccess with the following as advised by my hosting provider:

<IfModule mod_expires.c> # Activate mod_expires for this directory ExpiresActive on

# locally cache common image types for 7 days
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 7 days"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 7 days"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 7 days"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 7 days"

# cache CSS files for 24 hours
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 24 hours"

</IfModule>

It seems pretty much self explanatory, but when I tested it using one of Googles site optimisation tools it's telling me to optimise caching and therefore can't be picking this up. I'm now wondering if I need the HTML meta tags as well or if I'm actually caching stuff but it's not being reported by the tool. Any thoughts welcome.