"FAILED - (No max-age or expires)" - for homepage, index page?

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Hi,

it appears i have all basic webpage elements cached using “Cache-Control max-age”

but webpagetest.org returns only one that is “bad”?

Current rules:

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

1 WEEK

<FilesMatch “.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf|js|css)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=604800, public”

3 HOUR

<FilesMatch “.(txt|xml)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=10800”

5 MINUTES

<FilesMatch “.(html|htm)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=300”

NEVER CACHE - notice the extra directives

<FilesMatch “.(php|cgi|pl)$”>
Header set Cache-Control “max-age=0, private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate”
[/code]

So which rule i may add to cache that homepage please?

2

You probably don’t want to cache the home page. WebPagetest is only checking it because there is no header indicating it shouldn’t be cached (pragma: no-cache, etc).

Is the home page an index.html or index.php file? I’m not sure if the FilesMatch directive works for serving the default files (where the file name isn’t on the URL).

3

thx, my pages are all php… it is a vbulletin forum similar to example http://internetlifeforum.com