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Setting up proper caching on Apache

This technique gives a possible implementation for the CategoryBpCaching when using the Apache server.

Pre-requesites:

Implementations Steps:

Configuration sample

This shows how the W3C Apache 1.3 servers are configured to serve content by type and by location:

# Enables the use of the expires directive
AddModule mod_expires.c
ExpiresActive on

# The W3C site is generally speaking quite often updated, so we use a 6 hours expiry by default
ExpiresDefault "access plus 6 hours"

# but most images are very rarely updated, so a 1 month expiry is good
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/svg+xml "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

# The dated documents in the so called TR space are unmutable, so we set a very high expiry
<Location ~ "/TR/[0-9]{4}/*">
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 year"
</Location>

Further reading


CategoryApache CategoryStatic CategoryBpCaching

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