I’d like to bump this one. Have just started using EE and had wondered why our site loads so much slower than it was with static HTML files.

Worked this out to be the non-cache of CSS/JS files. Have used the tag above for CSS which has helped but really need to be able to return something like 304 instead of 200 to show the browser is using its own cache.

Has there been anything more in this?

Thanks

Is your PHP environment running under CGI or as an Apache module?  Under CGI, Apache has a bug that prevents us from being able to accomplish this from PHP.

Hi Derek.

FastCGI. That’s annoying Reason we moved over to FastCGI is to have better security over an Apache module but whilst retaining some of the performance.

So, I guess my options are;

A) Use static files outside of EE
B) Switch back to PHP as a module?

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PHP as an Apache module is perfectly secure if run properly (e.g. Apache running as each user instead of apache/www/nobody).  Many hosts that cater to dynamic sites such as our partner EngineHosting run this way.  If an environment is relying solely on FastCGI for security between accounts, I’d be wary.  What if other users on your server opted to not do so?

At any rate though, you are correct, this feature should work for you if you switch back to running as a module, and keeping those resources outside of ExpressionEngine is certainly an option, though less convenient.

Thanks for that. It’s only an internal box so we only have OUR sites on it.

Can you just confirm, that if/when we switch back to Module based PHP - will we have to make any further changes to get the JS files to cache?

Ah, well then go for it!  Only CSS templates at this time support this feature, called via the {stylesheet=} variable.  Unfortunately your JS will still not benefit at this time.

Ah OK. I will stay put for now. The CSS files do cache under FastCGI currently so that is cool and I will just make the rest be static files.

If (and when this changes) will it be in the changelog?

Yes if we do find a way to work around this (and add that feature to JS) it will have a public change log note.