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How do we clear the browser cache for clients during web development?

August 2, 2022 at 2:14 pm #7939

[anonymous]

Does Publii have a feature that would force my client’s computer and client’s clients who are browsing the new website to load an updated cache clean version of the site?

August 2, 2022 at 2:30 pm #7940

Bob

There is an option to add a version parameter in CSS/JS URLs to skip the browser cache.

August 2, 2022 at 2:41 pm #7944

[anonymous]

That’s a really nice feature!

And it looks like it was on by default. The new changes were not visible anyway, and I had to use hard refresh to get them.

August 2, 2022 at 3:15 pm #7946

[anonymous]

Hi @konstantin,

If your HTML files are also cached with longer TTL, then most probably the hard refresh will be necessary anyway. Because browser still tries to download CSS/JS with use of the old version parameter. The only solution in this case is set short TTL for HTML files and long TTL for CSS/JS and other asset files.

August 2, 2022 at 7:38 pm #7949

[anonymous]

I don’t know if my HTML files are cached or not. They are the files that are produced by Publii.

What is TTL? I don’t understand such technology.

Is there not a simple way to let the cache machine think that the site is totally new?

August 13, 2022 at 2:45 pm #8060

[anonymous]

Please consider using .htaccess – you can disable browser cache only for HTML files – examples:

https://www.a2hosting.com/kb/developer-corner/apache-web-server/turning-off-caching-using-htaccess

In the article you have custom rules for all files and only specific types of files. Of course your hosting must support .htaccess files