Page caching issues with htaccess.

[loccom]

Hi guys

I have been adding Expires Caching in to my htaccess files. But now think i have done it wrong.

I am now getting topic titles in the sidebar not updating unless i refresh the page. How can i let the page posts update more often?

here is my code

 

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "now plus 1 week"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

 

[opentype]

1 minute ago, loccom said:

I am now getting topic titles in the sidebar not updating unless i refresh the page.

That’s normal on any IPS page. You can lower the sidebar cache time in the ACP if you want it to update more often – after reload that is – sidebar blocks are not updated automatically. 

[loccom]

Thanks for your response

i am getting 4 day old topics in the right menu. This was only since 4.2 upgrade and the expires caching was added to htaccess.

[opentype]

Nothing in that file affects the sidebar directly. So there might be some other problems here. The sidebar is generated by the software on page load. It’s not like it’s a single file the browser pulls from the server. It would help if you would post your site, your block settings – what and what should not appear there –, maybe your cache settings and things like that. 

Regarding your htaccess rules: That ExpiresDefault could cause problems. I would not use that. You are setting EVERYTHING to cache for 2 days, where no other rule applies. I wouldn’t put something like that in the root folder. (In fact, I don’t put any cache rules in the root, but in the directories where I need them.)