Leverage Browser Caching, How on Apache or .Htaccess

htaccess leverage browser caching for images and css

try something like

<IfModule mod_expires.c> 
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 1 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 2592000 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 604800 seconds"
  ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 86400 seconds"
  ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 86400 seconds"
</IfModule>

or

<FilesMatch "\.(?i:gif|jpe?g|png|ico|css|js|swf)$">

  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=172800, public, must-revalidate"
  </IfModule>

</FilesMatch>

Leverage browser caching, how on apache or .htaccess?

I was doing the same thing a couple days ago. Added this to my .htaccess file:

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
ExpiresByType image/x-icon A2592000
ExpiresByType text/css A86400
ExpiresByType text/javascript A86400
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A2592000
#
<FilesMatch "\.(gif¦jpe?g¦png¦ico¦css¦js¦swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "public"
</FilesMatch>

And now when I run google speed page, leverage browwer caching is no longer a high priority.

Hope this helps.

How to add Leverage browser caching for CDN in .htaccess?

If you want to use Leverage browser caching for CDN, it's good to cache files by adding some caching headers like Cache-Control, Expires and Last-Modified.

Leverage Browser Caching using Mod_Headers

If you're on a shared server and your hosts won't enable Mod_Expires, you can still leverage browser caching by using Mod_headers, which will be available.

# Leverage browser caching using mod_headers #
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    <FilesMatch "\.(ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css|swf)$">
        Header set Expires "Wed, 15 Apr 2020 20:00:00 GMT"
        Header set Cache-Control "public"
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
# End of Leverage browser caching using mod_headers #

below example for testing:

# 1 YEAR
<FilesMatch "\.(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 3 HOUR
<FilesMatch "\.(txt|xml|js|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=10800"
</FilesMatch>

# NEVER CACHE - notice the extra directives
<FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|php|cgi|pl)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

Testing The Headers

You can verify if the Cache-Control: max-age header is in place on your files by running a “curl” command like:

curl -I http://foo.bar.netdna-cdn.com/file.ext

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2014 14:12:20 GMT
Content-Type: text/css
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=604800, public  ← 1 Week caching time 
Expires: Thu, 21 May 2015 20:00:00 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:00:00 GMT
GMT; path=/; domain=.domain.com
Server: NetDNA-cache/2.2
X-Cache: HIT

you have used below code:

Browser Caching using Mod_Expires
The most common way to leverage browser caching is to use mod_expires. The following code can be added to your .htaccess and will automatically enable browser caching for all users.

# Leverage browser caching using mod_expires #
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
    ExpiresActive On
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
    ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
</IfModule>
# End of Leverage browser caching using mod_expires #

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