Thank you very much rexkogitans.I really appreciate your feedback/info.
On Sun, 2019-06-16 at 12:20 +0200, rexkogit...@gmx.at wrote:
> Hello, Norbert,
>
>
>
> first of all I want to introduce my situation a bit. I am IT
> sysadmin at a telecommunication who is responsible for setting
> up
> web servers. We also have the situation that customers load a
> site
> or a part of a site, say the CSS files or JQuery, a hundred
> times
> an hour whice is really not necessary.
> In the view of HTTP, caching is always an advice that is given
> from the server to the client. It is the client's
> responsibility
> (i.e. its specific behaviour to follow this advice) to really
> cache the files and not re-request them from the server.
> In HTTP 1.1, the caching is a simple HTTP header field, see
> section 14.9 here:
> https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
> So, for example:
> Cache-Control: max-age=3600, public
> to advice the client a cache of 3600 seconds. You may want to
> adjust the value to your needs.
>
>
> Since you do not want every file to be cached, you may want to
> put the header under a condition:
> <FilesMatch "\.mp4$">
> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=3600, public"
> </FilesMatch>
> You can put this into the virtual host configuration file or into
> the .htaccess file.The FilesMatch directive is described here:
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/de/mod/core.html#filesmatch
> and the string "\.mp4$" is a Regular Expression to match the file
> names.
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
> rexkogitans
>
>
>
>
>
> Am 16.06.19 um 09:53 schrieb Norbert de
> Jonge:
>
>
>
> >
> > Anyone know a company that I can pay to get solid advice on
> > this?
> >
> >
> >
> > I mean a company that actually knows what to do in my
> > situation, instead of just accepting my money and then
> > using
> > Google/Stack Overflow to see what information they can give
> > me.
> >
> >
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Norbert
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2019-06-13 at 20:40 +0200, Norbert de Jonge wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > When I'm serving up many (huge) MP4 files via HTML5
> > > <video>, and want
> > > heavy caching to keep traffic down, is the following
> > > suitable
> > > public_html/.htaccess content?
> > >
> > > =====
> > > <IfModule mod_expires.c>
> > > <FilesMatch "\.(mp4)$">
> > > ExpiresActive On
> > > Header set Expires "Mon, 27 Mar 2038 13:33:37 GMT"
> > > </FilesMatch>
> > > </IfModule>
> > > =====
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Norbert
> > >
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