Hello I'm having issues with pages not updating on refreshing. I put in to mozilla.org and they said it is a server misconfiguration. I read through the link he sent, but can't find anywhere to set the cache controls.

I can change a php program and refesh the local version of the site and it doesn't reflect the changes in the php. I installed the cache clear add on in firefox and it sort of helps but still have to re-load things half a dozen times to get the update to show up. I put in the meta tags that I found on one search that said it would make it re-validate and not cache. Didn't really help. I've searched for 'cache-control in Apache' installed the following, which I found in that search, in the bitnami .conf file as that was the only place I could find a section for the VirtualHost. It hasn't helped. I couldn't find anywhere in the Apache.conf area or files that had anything vaguely resembling what I found in searches. 

[CODE] <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css|json)$">
    FileETag None

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header unset ETag
  Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
  Header set Pragma "no-cache"
  Header set Note "CACHING IS DISABLED ON LOCALHOST"
  Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
</IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

[/code]

I'm at my wits end with this it is a major pain in the butt when trying to tweek display outputs and various php things. Chrome doesn't reliably refresh either although it seems to do it better than Firefox. I'm switching between the two trying to do this and its driving me nucking futz. Please can someone tell me how to make my local system reload when I tell it to? Its not even re-loading the results of queries etc. This is maddening.

    Do either Firefox or Chrome say they are using cached copies instead of making requests? Are the responses 200 or 304 (a cached 200 means the browser didn't bother requesting it, a 304 means the server said the browser's cached copy was current)? That information should appear in the networking activity reports for the page.

      They are both reporting 200 on the php
      304 on the images which is fine for the images.

        Hi minifairy, is this a problem only with firefox, or is it not refreshing in chrome as well? Also, is it core php, or are you using any frameworks / cms? Asking as there are some plugins which stores in cache

          Your FilesMatch list of file extensions needs a 'php' entry.

            6 days later

            pbismad I added php in this line from above

            <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css|json)$">

            didn't help

            Evoluer yes it is happening in Chrome too although not to the same extent. Seems Chrome will reload sooner than firefox. Haven't added anything to the basic bitnami winampstack installation.

              pbismad;11063615 wrote:

              Your FilesMatch list of file extensions needs a 'php' entry.

              minifairy;11063679 wrote:

              pbismad I added php in this line from above

              <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css|json)$">

              didn't help

              You did restart Apache after making this change to the .conf file?

                yes restarted the whole computer as in shut down and turned off then turned it back on and restarted everything. Still takes several refreshes to get it to actually reload the page. still getting the 200 codes in the inspect element on the network tab. It does seem to reload after several attempts. Sometimes 3-4 sometimes more. This is driving me nuts.

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