mod_expires support?

[robertc]

I was playing around with the .mobi readiness evaluator yesterday and one of the things my sites failed on was 'No cache-control or expires headers detected' on static files. I had a google and found that mod_expires was the thing for this on Apache, but any attempt to activate it through .htaccess files resulted in a 500 error. I assume, therefore, that the module is not available on catalyst2 servers? If I'm assuming wrong, can someone please give me some pointers as to the correct syntax I should be using in .htaccess to enable it?

Rob

[paulredpath]

Rob,

Which server are you on?

[robertc]

Sorry, should have mentioned that: banana

Rob

[paulredpath]

Robert,

What line are you adding to your .htaccess to load the module.

[robertc]

I tried a couple of different things from some tutorials I found on the internet:

http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/sp...s-caching.html
http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/...ly.html?page=1

When none of that worked I looked up where the module was on a local Centos box I had and put in that path. This is what I ended up with (didn't keep the prior versions) and was still getting 500 errors:

LoadModule expires_module /usr/lib/https/modules/mod_expires.so



### activate mod_expires

ExpiresActive On

### Expire .gif's 1 month from when they're accessed

ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000

### Expire everything else 1 day from when it's last modified

### (this uses the Alternative syntax)

ExpiresDefault "modification plus 1 day"

### Apply a Cache-Control header to index.html

<Files index.html>

Header append Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate"

</Files>

Rob

[rob]

Robert,

mod_expires is loaded on the server by default - we do not allow LoadModule in .htaccess.

Please try removing the loadmodule directive, and trying the .htaccess file then.

If this is not effective, please open a ticket via shared@support.catalyst2.com or http://support.catalyst2.com

Thanks,
Rob

[robertc]

Just an update, I've not managed to look at this until today but I seem to have it working now. For anyone else, this is what the relevant section of my .htaccess now looks like:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 day"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
</IfModule>

Rob

[paulredpath]

Thanks for the update robert.