Speed Up Sites with htaccess Caching

produke writes "Increase your page load times and save bandwidth with easy and really effective methods using apache htaccess directives. mod_headers to set expires, and max-age, and cache-control headers on certain filetypes. The second method employs mod_expires to do the same thing -- together with FileETag, makes for some very fast page loads!"

Comments

caching htaccess?

[oneiros27]

Here I was, thinking that someone had a solution for the slowdown caused by using htaccess files in the first place.

They don't.

If you're going to set caching in your server to decrease load time, make sure to set in the main configuation files, and disable htaccess, which can potentially increase the time of every page load. (the decreased hits and bandwidth may be an advantage to you -- you'll have to benchmark to see if this solution helps or hurts you for your given platform and usage patterns)

httpd.conf

[Nos.]

Its in the comments on that site, but remember, you're always better off putting this kind of stuff in your httpd.conf as opposed to .htaccess files. htaccess files reduce performance on your webserver.