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Hello Hugo

Could you please help me on how to use Expire option (and where) in hiawatha.conf? For example I want to set it for 1 week. Looked in manual pages but puting "Expire 1 weeks" gives me errors.

Hiawatha version: 7.8
Operating System: Debian

The Expire option is available in UrlToolkit rules.

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = my_toolkit_rule
  Match ^/some/pattern$ Expire 1 weeks
}

VirtualHost {
  ...
  UseToolkit = my_toolkit_rule
}

Can it be used on extensions ? For example to match all .jpg's under /var/www ?

For example, this wont work for me either:

UrlToolkit {
    ToolkitID = wordpress
    RequestURI exists Return
    Match .* Rewrite /index.php Expire 1 weeks
}

Yes, it can be on extensions.

UrlToolkit {
    ToolkitID = expire_jpegs
    Match .*\.jpg$ Expire 1 weeks
}

Whether the jpegs are located in /var/www or not depends on for which website you use the toolkit rule and where that website is located.

What is it you try to achieve in your example?

Well I am trying to optimize my web server as much as possible : ). Couple testing sites said (recommended) puting expire headers so..

I know on nginx I had something like this :

expires               24h;

and that's is. Now in Hiawatha it seems there is no "global" option for this..