Thursday 24 May 2018

Prevent caching using .htaccess

Sometimes your pages and scripts etc get cached forcing you to examine whether you really did save the file you're working on, or pressing ctrl-f5 to make sure you have the up to date version in your browser. To cut down on this confusion follow the instructions below.
cd myApp
touch .htaccess
Now add the following to the .htaccess file, which will prevent caching
<filesMatch "\.(html|js|css)$">
  FileETag None
  <ifModule mod_headers.c>
     Header unset ETag
     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
     Header set Pragma "no-cache"
     Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
  </ifModule>
</filesMatch>
Remember to remove this when you've finished developing.

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