Is it better to put “ExpiresActive On” and “ExpiresByType” statements in the .htaccess or in your section of your Apache vhost configuration? Advantage or disavantage of each?
Thanks for your thoughts,
David DeWitt
I was hoping someone had some thoughts on this or would it be better to put this question in a different forum?
Thanks,
David DeWitt
I think you'll find very few real Apache Gurus in the cs-cart forum. You might try one of the Apache user forums for a more technical response.
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I think you'll find very few real Apache Gurus in the cs-cart forum. You might try one of the Apache user forums for a more technical response.
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Since we have lots of people trying to get the best preformace from there sites I thought some user would have an idea about this. I will go and find some apache forums and see what kind of responces I get.
Thanks,
David DeWitt
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Since we have lots of people trying to get the best preformace from there sites I thought some user would have an idea about this. I will go and find some apache forums and see what kind of responces I get.
Thanks,
David DeWitt
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you will get marginally better performance by not using .htaccess files
in you will need to make sure you have the following set
#ignore, do not read htaccess files
AllowOverride None
If you are using CS-Cart SEO addon then then seo rewrite rules will need to go in virtual host:
RewriteEngine on
Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented Example:
Your store url is http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cart
So “RewriteBase” should be: RewriteBase /store/cart
#RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.(?:png|gif|ico|swf|jpe?g|js|css)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]
the following is for setting header expires:
ExpiresActive On
Set up caching on media files for 1 week
ExpiresDefault A604800
Header append Cache-Control “public, must-revalidate”
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
FileETag none
The following is complete example for virtual host settings in httpd.conf
It includes ignore the htaccess file, url redirect, SEO rewrite, mod deflate (gzip) of files, expires headers, and no ETags
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Options +FollowSymLinks -Indexes -MultiViews -Includes
AllowOverride None
RewriteEngine on
Some hostings require RewriteBase to be uncommented Example:
Your store url is http://www.yourcompany.com/store/cart
So “RewriteBase” should be: RewriteBase /store/cart
#RewriteBase /
redirect mystore.com mystore.net www.mystore.net → www.mystore.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mystore.(com|net) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*) http://www.mystore.com/$1 [L,R=301,NE]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !.(?:png|gif|ico|swf|jpe?g|js|css)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php?sef_rewrite=1 [L,QSA]
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
ExpiresActive On
Set up caching on media files for 1 week
ExpiresDefault A604800
Header append Cache-Control “public, must-revalidate”
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A604800
ExpiresByType text/css A604800
FileETag none
You will need to load module deflate for Apache deflate (gzip), you will find this in httpd.conf load modules section:
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so