[KLUG Members] apache question

[Adam Williams]

> > 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.  
> By "see the updates" I take it you're looking at them with a browser.
> It might not be the server's cache but your browser's cache that is the 
> problem.
> The solution might be as simple as holding down your shift key when you 
> hit "Reload" on your browser, which forces it to get a fresh copy from 
> the server.

Yep!

You might also have some intermediary cache in-play.  Recent versions of
things like Squid exhibit this behaviour very rarely (assuming NTP is
used to sync clocks), but things like M$ proxy server are notorious for
serving up stale content.

> What is "it" you want forced to look for updates, Apache?  Most new 
> connections get the newest copy.  If you've visited the site and seen 
> the page before, have you tried just adding an extra GET value to the url?
> http://mysite.com/mypage.html?killcache=1234
> Then just keep changing the 1234 to some other number to keep seeing the 
> newest version of the page.

The above will work, but might not help any references images that have
changed.