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Setting web content expiry for Cognos Analytics with IBM HTTP Server or Apache HTTP Server

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Question

How to set the web content expiry for Cognos Analytics with IBM HTTP Server or Apache HTTP Server?

Answer

In IBM HTTP Server and Apache HTTP Server, the expires_module adds response headers to requests that indicate to the browser how long it can hold the returned resource before checking for new versions.

Steps:

1. In the apache/conf directory, open the cognos.conf file in a text editor.

2. The following is the code snippet in the file which sets the expiry of webcontent:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>

<FilesMatch "\.(jpe?g|png|gif|js|css|json|html|woff2?|template)$">

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 day"

</FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

3. In the above code, the web content is set to expire after 1 day. This can be changed to a month/year as per the users requirement.

4. Restart the server.

Related Information

Apache directives

[{"Product":{"code":"SSTSF6","label":"IBM Cognos Analytics"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"11.0","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
15 June 2018

UID

swg22012993

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