Re: apache 2 expiresdefault

Jake Ravenwood wrote:

> i have a linux/apache2 newly setup. i put it online last week but
> after a day, i got a lot of email/phone complaints saying they are
> seeing old pages/old contents of the site. My site changes
> frequently(daily). after checking i found that apache has
> ExpiresDefault A2419200 which spells to 28days. I changed it to
> ExpiresDefault A0 and reload Apache. Some end-users are now seeing the
> new content but some are still seeing the old pages. What else i
> missed?

If someone already has a cached version with the 28-day expiry, their
web browser (or an intermediate proxy) is likely to keep using it
until it expires or until they force a reload. Nothing you do to your
web server can force those existing copies to expire prematurely.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>