Signature Banner not refreshing

[geoffw]

My Signature Banner is not refreshing for me, those of others are. Any ideas?

My signature banner below is reading 16.52 yet my clock is now 17.19 - when I 1st logged on to Cumulus. Rereshing the page does nothing to the banner content.

[freddie]

I see it as 9:17 on the 21st. Looks like a cache setting needs changing on your website.

[geoffw]

This illustrates my problem, the first mage was cut andpasted from my earlier message

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Thes 2nd image wascut after I had had my tea and the come back tomy PC to click "refresh".

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So how do i stop my website caching my banner?

[freddie]

It's the viewer's browser that caches the banner - but the amount of time it is cached is set by your web server.

If it is an Apache web server then I think you can put a .htaccess file in your web site root that will control the caching.

[ConligWX]

you can also blacklist files you dont want cached by opcache in php.ini. (if your using opcache)

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; The location of the OPcache blacklist file (wildcards allowed).
; Each OPcache blacklist file is a text file that holds the names of files
; that should not be accelerated. The file format is to add each filename
; to a new line. The filename may be a full path or just a file prefix
; (i.e., /var/www/x  blacklists all the files and directories in /var/www
; that start with 'x'). Line starting with a ; are ignored (comments).
opcache.blacklist_filename=/share/wherever/php_blacklist.txt

[freddie]

Very true what @conligwx says about PHP-controlled caching, which needs to be considered as well.

For Apache, you should put the following code in a file called .htaccess and put it in your web site root. Make sure the file is saved as the precise name .htaccess when you upload it.

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# DISABLE CACHING
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
    Header set Pragma "no-cache"
    Header set Expires 0
</IfModule>

<FilesMatch "\.(php)$">
    <IfModule mod_expires.c>
        ExpiresActive Off
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        FileETag None
        Header unset ETag
        Header unset Pragma
        Header unset Cache-Control
        Header unset Last-Modified
        Header set Pragma "no-cache"
        Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
        Header set Expires "Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT"
    </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

Hopefully your hosting company allows the use of .htaccess files.

[geoffw]

Thanks all. I did as Freddie suggested and put the .htaccess file in my root directory. Restarted and it seems to have done the job. I recently changed from http to https.

Banners on opening

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Banners after a few minutes and then a refresh

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