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Apache using htaccess for browser caching

I implemented the following to leverage browser caching in my htaccess (in the root)

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"

however I still get warnings about browser caching from gtmetrix (pagespeed and yslow).

Have I done something wrong here? GTMetrix reports my JS resources only have an expiry of 2 days (default).

Solution

  • Try using the header set for caching by setting the expire date in the future. You can use filematch for specific file types. A year typically a good time. Edit the file types as necessary. 

        <filesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|js|css)$">
       Header set Expires "Mon, 15 Apr 2015 20:00:01 GMT"
    </filesMatch>

    This definitely works for me.