Martin Geisler Online

I’ve asked Apache to start sending out Cache-Control and Expires headers for PNG and JPEG images. They are set to expire after one week — this means that your browser wont even try to load the images from my server until a week has passed. This should give you a more smooth browsing experience because the browser only fetches the XHTML.

The trick is very simple, just add the following to a .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive on
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 week"
    ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 week"
</IfModule>

Also, I’ve turned indexes on in the /downloads/ directory — this is also very simple, just make a .htaccess file with

Options +Indexes

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