Question

I have created a twiki site http://www.centennialcharter.com create a new City Charter for Centennial, CO. I have been successful in getting everything up and running but my users (very un-savvy computer users) are experiencing significant issues with cached pages. At this point, every time we go to a page every user must clear the browser cache to see if the page has been refreshed.

I would consider this a browser issue except for the fact that when I use the Twiki at work I have no similar issues. It points to a config issue with user sessions but I cannot figure out what the deal is.

I tried adding the cache plugin and things went really really bad - to the point where nobody could log in until I removed it.

Environment

-- DaveHanna - 02 Jan 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

My guess is that your users are behind a server that caches sites - usually done to lower external bandwidth costs.

-- ArthurClemens - 02 Jan 2008

Thanks Arthur. That was a great suggestions. I started googling based on that and found this page. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_expires.html Once I added ExpiresDefault "access" to my .htaccess everything started working like a charm. Dave

-- DaveHanna - 09 Jan 2008