How to enable browser caching for my site? Do I just put cache-control:public somewhere up in my header like this?
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
Cache-Control:public;
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I am using the latest version of PHP developing on the latest version of XAMPP.
You can set the headers in PHP by using:
<?php
//set headers to NOT cache a page
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); //HTTP 1.1
header("Pragma: no-cache"); //HTTP 1.0
header("Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
//or, if you DO want a file to cache, use:
header("Cache-Control: max-age=2592000"); //30days (60sec * 60min * 24hours * 30days)
?>
Note that the exact headers used will depend on your needs (and if you need to support HTTP 1.0 and/or HTTP 1.1)
For Apache server, you should check mod_expires for setting Expires and Cache-Control headers.
Alternatively, you can use Header directive to add Cache-Control on your own:
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=290304000, public"