Posts

• Invalidating the browser cache

  I had a bit of an issue with my website recently.

  I pushed some changes incorporating images for the first time (I know – very swish, very modern), and everything seemed to be working just fine, but when I loaded the production site in Firefox… the images were not styled. Stranger still, they were styled when I loaded the same page in Chrome.

  The experienced computer touchers amongst you will be saying “this is obviously a cache problem”, and you’re right, it is obviously a cache problem. Pressing CTR + SHIFT + R (which forces Firefox to clear the cache and do a full reload) proved this thesis, and solved the immediate problem for me, on my machine. But what about other people’s machines? I needed to cache-bust.

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• Permissions Strike Again

  Configuring Apache really isn’t rocket science. There are a wealth of great tutorials online, the documentation is very well documented, and the defaults work more or less out of the box. But it’s one of those jobs that I do just infrequently enough that I always forget things in the interim, and end up making the same old mistakes.

  And it almost always has to do with permissions.

  So, I’m writing this post both as a means of christening this devlog (Hi! I’m Andrzej! Hire me!) and also as a reminder to myself that the home folder is not executable by default.

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