I need to set cache expiration, but the site seems to ignore the htaccess file settings:

# One month for most static assets
<filesMatch ".(css|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|ico)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public"
</filesMatch>

# One month for most static assets
<filesMatch ".(js)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=300, public"
</filesMatch>

Is there a way to set this to where it is recognized?

does the session expiration need to go into the PHP at the top of each page?

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Hi Drivers, it only needs to be in the .htaccess file not on the store pages. You may want to check with the host that you are using the correct method for their web server,


I've used this method in the past, I don't put the css as css changes often.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
# Enable expirations
ExpiresActive On
# Default directive
ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 month"
# My favicon
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
# Images
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"

# Javascript
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"
</IfModule>

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Ill try that and report back

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Its still not showing caching on gtmetrix.com's scans?

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Hi Drivers, you may want to check with the host that you are using the correct method for their web server. Example some host have caching features that are enabled in their cpanel where the user can select type of files and length of time.

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Thanks for the info, Ill check that out and report back...

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No special cache needs for host, nothing in cpanel... uploaded older backup htaccess and it worked well..must have been a missing symbol, or space, or dash, etc

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Hi Drivers,
You can try this one

</IfModule>
# ======================================================
# Disable problematic ETag header since we are going to use Expires
# ======================================================
Header unset Pragma
FileETag None
Header unset ETag
# ======================================================
# Set Cache-Control and Expires headers
# ======================================================
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf|pdf|flv|mp3)$">
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresDefault "access plus 14 days"
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|xml|txt|xsl)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=7200, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Defining MIME types to ensure the web server actually knows about them.
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
AddType text/css .css
AddType application/javascript js
AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot
AddType application/x-font-ttf ttf ttc
AddType font/opentype otf
AddType application/x-font-woff woff
AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
AddEncoding gzip svgz
</Ifmodule>

Hok