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More cache-busting
Well, that was easy.
At the end of my last post, I had successfully written a script to stop stale CSS from getting stuck in the browser cache. It was a rough-and-ready solution — mine usually are — but it did the job. The one optimization I wanted to make was to ensure that the cache gets busted only when there is fresh CSS, as opposed to on every build. I had expected to get a nice long blog post out of this, but it turns out to be a very easy job.
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Invalidating the browser cache
I had a bit of an issue with my website recently.
I pushed some changes incorporating images for the first time (I know – very swish, very modern), and everything seemed to be working just fine, but when I loaded the production site in Firefox… the images were not styled. Stranger still, they were styled when I loaded the same page in Chrome.
The experienced computer touchers amongst you will be saying “this is obviously a cache problem”, and you’re right, it is obviously a cache problem. Pressing
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It is always permissions
Configuring Apache really isn’t rocket science. There are a wealth of great tutorials online, the documentation is very well documented, and the defaults work more or less out of the box. But it’s one of those jobs that I do just infrequently enough that I always forget things in the interim, and end up making the same old mistakes.
And it almost always has to do with permissions.
So, I’m writing this post both as a means of christening this devlog (Hi! I’m Andrzej! Hire me!) and also as a reminder to myself that the home folder is not executable by default.
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