Comments on: Speed Tips: Add Future Expires Headers

By: Ela

Ela — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:26:26 +0000

Please can you explain me how to setup this expire header to the httpd.conf file. I have access to httpd.conf through ssh.

By: Aaron Braun-Duin

Aaron Braun-Duin — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:50:05 +0000

I have implemented this code in the htaccess of my Wordpress blog, however, I am still getting an F from YSlow for not having expires headers on the adsense code on my site. Is there any way to remedy that, or is that not really having any significant effect on my loading speed despite the poor score? Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:46:04 +0000

Thanks for the great content. I came across your site as I was trying to fix a caching problem on one of my websites. I’m a bit of a novice when it comes to caching and did a lot of damage to my site this past week experimenting with far future expires header.

In your post, you say

Keep in mind, if you use a far future Expires header you have to change the component’s filename whenever the file changes.

I would be very grateful if you could point me in the right direction as to what code I should include in my .htaccess file to fix this problem.

After I made this initial change, I lost my enter header section of my website and it also screwed up the rest of my page template.

Thanks in advance for your help!

By: julien

julien — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:50:49 +0000

Hi,

i just would like to know one thing. if you combine using multiple subdomain to serve images and script, where would put your .htaccess file that hold the cache control header, future expire header and all this for images.

do you put it in your main domain root or in the subdomains root where you have images and script?

thanks

julien

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:00:00 +0000

Hello, when l add this to my .htaccess it crashes my site (returns 404) ... any idea why?

Header set Expires "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:00:00 GMT"

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:49:12 +0000

That middle part actually gives me 500 error. is there another way?

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:40:22 +0000

It might be helpful for readers to also mention that you are using Yahoo’s Yslow addon for the Firebug extension to get the analysis presented in the screen shots (without/with).

YSlow for Firebug
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/