question about browsing

[tendouser]

I uploaded new pictures to a website I maintain and is hosted in my unlimited web hosting shared hosting account.  When I browse this site through Firefox I have to refresh to see the new or edited images; same browsing through IE.  How can I prevent this to happen because old cache??

 

Thanks!

 

[cssfreakie]

it could be cache indeed, something you might want to add in an .htaccess file on your server is the following

 

    # Sets the cache control for 1 week
    <FilesMatch "\.(css|jpg|png|gif|swf|js)$">
    Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, must-revalidate"
    </FilesMatch>
     
    # turn on the module for this directory
    ExpiresActive on
     
    # set default
    ExpiresDefault "access plus 24 hours"
    ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 months"
    ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 months"

 

the article on the example given above is: http://www.flingbits.com/tutorial/view/improve-your-sites-performance-with-apache