[KLUG Members] apache question

[Tony Gettig]

Quoting Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com>:

> I have an internal website running on a linux box.  We are doing a
> lot of updates to it right now.  To see the updates I need to restart
> the apache service.  Is there like a timeout before it will see new
> changes?  Is there a way to force it to look for new page updates
> regularly?  

Are you updating software or web pages? If web pages, three things:

1) Check your browser config. In IE, click Tools, Internet Options, Settings,
and click the "Every visit to the page" radio button. In Mozilla/Netscape, click
Edit, Preferences, expand Advanced, Cache, and click the "Every time I view the
page" radio button.

2) Add <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="nocache/"> tag in the HEAD section of
your page.

3) Check your caching server config, if you are using one. Add an exception for
the internal site you are updating so it doesn't get cached...at least during
your development time.

If you're updating software components of the server, you'll need to be more
specific. Version of OS, Apache 1.x or 2, what components you're updating, etc. 

HTH!



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