Expires Headers / Leverage Browser Caching

[Jazzi]

does anyone have the code for joomla 3.1

Htaccess rules should work fine regardless of the version of Joomla installed. I have 3.1 and they certainly worked for me...

[seaside man]

what should my htaccess file look like to increase speed

[Jazzi]

what should my htaccess file look like to increase speed

Honestly, it will vary from server to server - sorry! I changed mine a bit, based on hours and hours of online research and repeated testing on both PageSpeed and YSlow... Here's what I now have in mine (right at the start, before the Joomla default code):

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# Expires Control
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A0
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|swf|svg|woff)$">
ExpiresDefault A1209600
Header append Cache-Control "public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|html)$">
ExpiresDefault A7200
Header append Cache-Control "proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(js|css)$">
ExpiresDefault A259200
Header append Cache-Control "proxy-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

Hope that helps!

[seaside man]

what server do you use

[Jazzi]

Mine's a Site5 Reseller server running Apache and PHP 5.3.

Meant to say: it's down to what Apache modules are running on a server - you'll need to ask your host that, but you basically need mod_header...

[seaside man]

i have a dedicated server which is Apache/2.2.23 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.23 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4

[Jazzi]

That doesn't help with knowing if mod_header is installed and enabled though - for that you'll need to ask your host...

[seaside man]

hi, i have been told it is installed

[Jazzi]

The you should be fine with the code I use. Personally, I'd run your site through both PageSpeed and YSlow before you make the changes - then you'll be able to gauge just how successful (or not) they've been.

[seaside man]

not seeing any changes

[Jazzi]

not seeing any changes

Did you run a page through both PageSpeed and YSlow before you added the code? If you did, did the scores not change at all?

Does URL rewriting (friendly links) work on your site?

[hhorton]

My website uses png files on most of its pages and the pond files are regularly updated. My pages are set up to load particular .png files and all I have to do is to upload and overwrite the previous png file and it is then updated on the page. No page editing to do.
If I have the system cache plugin for pages set to no and have png files in my .htaccess file set to a month, does that mean that if I update a png file it won't change despite the no page caching?

[internetuser]

hi
i have tried about everything mentioned in this forum to fix the leverage browser caching issue but nothing has changed so far , some codes gave me a 500 errors , others basically didnt make any improvement .
could it be because i'm placing the code at the bottom of the .htacess file ! where exactly is the code suppose to be added !
Thanks

[roma64]

@laborduck!

I am not sure what problems you were having with JCH Optimize! I use JCH Optimize PRO and it is working extremely good! Depending on which template you use, there are configuration that needs to be set correctly and if not, your site's template will brake!

I use JCH Optimize on every site I design and with any template and don't have the problem you were experiencing!

JCH Optimize PRO is good and very cheap ($5 or $10) and I highly recommend it! If you decide to re-install it and still having problems with your template breaking up, I can help you with that!

Peace

[the apprentice]

I have the expires headers plugin, which I have left with the original default parameters, and also this code at the bottom of the .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
Header unset ETag
Header unset Last-Modified
</IfModule>
FileETag None
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|gz|JPG|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
Header unset Cache-control
Header set Expires "access plus 1 month"
</FilesMatch>

Does it make sense or conflicts?