I’ve checked my plesk control panel on my vps and those mods are installed but when I run the site through http://redbot.org/ to check what’s being sent, I get:
This response is negotiated, but doesn't have an appropriate Vary header.
The max-age Cache-Control directive appears more than once.
Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=0, must-revalidate, no-transform, max-age=300
So it doesn’t look like it’s working.
Here’s the .htaccess that I edited:
### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
<Files *.ss>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>
<Files web.config>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Files>
# This denies access to all yml files, since developers might include sensitive
# information in them. See the docs for work-arounds to serve some yaml files
<Files *.yml>
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
</Files>
# Define some expiry header settings.
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 5 minutes"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType image/ico "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 7 day"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 7 day"
</IfModule>
# Append the 'Vary: Accept-Encoding' for resources that might need it.
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch ".(js|css|xml|gz)$">
Header append Vary: Accept-Encoding
</FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
ErrorDocument 404 /assets/error-404.html
ErrorDocument 500 /assets/error-500.html
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
SetEnv HTTP_MOD_REWRITE On
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase '/'
RewriteRule ^vendor(/|$) - [F,L,NC]
RewriteRule silverstripe-cache(/|$) - [F,L,NC]
RewriteRule composer.(json|lock) - [F,L,NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.php$
RewriteRule .* framework/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###
I’m just trying to add a little client-side caching to my site and I was also advised to add the old Vary:Accept-Encoding for clients that can’t handle gzip – apparently it’s best practice to.
Any ideas where I’m going wrong here?
2
Answers
Your htaccess file has
It may be that your VPS doesn’t have the mod_expires installed for apache. If that is the case then it would make sense that the expires configuration wouldn’t get applied.
You can login as root to your server and run something like the 2 lines below (which might be a bit different depending on your server’s config, apache version etc)
Then simply restart your Apache server:
or
The above example works on Ubuntu 20.04 Server, running Virtualmin as a hosting solution. (tested myself)
For other installations, apache versions simply google: "a2enmod expires" on CentOS 7, Apache version 1