Caching a specific file (e.g. by setting HTTP headers for it) in lighttpd?

Hey Stackoverflow people,

In lighttpd, I want to set specific HTTP headers for a specific file (not site wide).

Basically I don't want to cache the main index.html file.

One catch, I can't add any new modules to lighttpd.

Solution

You can't add new modules, but have not shared which modules are available in your limited environment. This is not a well written question.

If you are unable to use mod_expire in lighttpd, then I would suggest using meta http-equiv tags in the index.html to limit caching.