Any help appreciated. I’ve tried to find a solution and have only run across suggestions involving .htaccess files and some other things that I wish to avoid. I’m using Joe Workman’s awesome Total CMS for a site. I have a link (the class schedule link in the website below) that is fed by Total CMS’s “File” element. Whenever a file is uploaded to populate this link it has the same file name. As a result “old” PDF files are getting cached and the newly uploaded PDF’s are not displaying (sans a user refresh of their browser).
Any thoughts on how I could either stop the caching of this one particular link/file and/or automatically append the file name on upload so that the file name is different (thus avoiding the cache issue). I feel like I’m missing a simple solution here
Thanks for the reads everyone. Though I was hoping to find a way within Total CMS and/or Rapidweaver I went ahead and dove into the .htaccess file route based on something I found on a PHP forum (link below for credit where credit is due). It was very straight forward and seems to have resolved the caching issue. Further…the site has not exploded yet
Here is the code I discovered at the link above. Hope this helps someone in some way.
/</ FilesMatch “.(pdf)$”>
FileETag None
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”
