Contents
Does htaccess get cached?
I’ve tested this in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge and modern browsers absolutely do cache . htaccess files. These are the 4 lines of code I’m using for testing purposes.
How do I enable caching in htaccess?
htaccess file. Using the mod_expires module, we can define how long each file type gets cached for after we’ve defined it’s MIME type. This module controls the setting of the Expires HTTP header and the max-age directive of the Cache-Control HTTP header in server responses.
What is Cache Control max-age?
Cache-Control: Max-Age The max-age request directive defines, in seconds, the amount of time it takes for a cached copy of a resource to expire. After expiring, a browser must refresh its version of the resource by sending another request to a server.
How can I add security to my.htaccess file?
It will go faster (if you remove completly support for .htaccess with AllowOverride None) and you wont get the risk of someone altering your .htaccess. There’s several ways of adding security in .htaccess files, one of these ways is by using Basic HTTP Authentification with .htpasswd files.
Why is it important to protect.htaccess files?
This is super important because you do not want anyone or anything to access these sensitive and powerful files. If you are unsure, or just want to be extra secure, continue reading to learn how to protect all of your .htaccess and .htpasswd files.
How to protect.htaccess and.htpasswd files?
In either case, if you want to lock things down or add an extra layer of security just to be safe, continue reading for various techniques. The following techniques can be used to secure the .htaccess and .htpasswd files on any Apache server. # protect .htaccess
Do you need a full HTTPS server for htaccess?
Full HTTPS server is not required if you want to protect only some url with HTTP authentification. What you really need is that all these protected url should be in https, if non-protected url are in the http domain the authentification headers won’t be used as this is a different domain (and the authentification headers are sent by domain).