How to disable Apache caching in Apache-XAMPP?

Question

I am having this weird problem with my XAMPP-Apache. I am making an log-in system where form is posted to redirect.php page. I updated the redirect.php and but still it is showing me the same old result. There is not even a single line to redirect(header fn call) it to another page but still it redirects to home.php page as it was doing in older script. I tried clearing cache of my browser and changing the browser for testing but didn't work...I even tried rebooting the server but no change. Please help me through....

Answer 1

Tried this? Should work in both .htaccess, httpd.conf and in a VirtualHost (usually placed in httpd-vhosts.conf if you have included it from your httpd.conf)

<filesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css)$">
  FileETag None
  <ifModule mod_headers.c>
     Header unset ETag
     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
     Header set Pragma "no-cache"
     Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
  </ifModule>
</filesMatch>

100% Prevent Files from being cached

This is similar to how google ads employ the header Cache-Control: private, x-gzip-ok="" > to prevent caching of ads by proxies and clients. From http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/using-http-headers-with-htaccess.html

And optionally add the extension for the template files you are retrieving if you are using an extension other than .html for those.

Answer 2

If request is identical, it's possible that you receiving response from cache.

Solution 1:

You can try to have every time unique request by adding for example time stamp.

Solution 2 (not every server will accept - depend on server setting):

You can set header params to your request like:

'If-Modified-Since' = 'Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'
'Cache-Control' = 'no-cache'
'Pragma' = 'no-cache'

Solution 3:

Play with server config :)