Speeding up Vanilla

ggaudrea

Vanilla is pretty darn fast, but what I've found is slow is the many HTTP requests that pile up when you have a lot of extensions. I added this to my .htaccess at the root of my forum and got a huge boost: ExpiresDefault "now" ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/gif A864000 ExpiresByType image/jpeg A864000 ExpiresByType text/css A864000 ExpiresByType text/javascript A864000 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A864000 You'll want to make sure that you're forum is pretty stable and you don't plan on making changes to the design or javascripts, because your users will load them once and won't even check them again until a day has passed. -Geoff

rusty

I added this and it appeared to speed up my forum but after about half an hour the pages just wouldn't load. Any tips?

rusty

This is the error I get:


500 Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or
misconfiguration and was unable to complete
your request.

Please contact the server administrator,
support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred,
and anything you might have done that may have
caused the error.

More information about this error may be available
in the server error log.

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Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.glasgowfgss.com Port 80

Dinoboff

Your server doesn't not support mod_expires.
To avoid this kind of error, the rules should be only applied if the module is installed
<IfModule expires_module> ExpiresDefault "now" ExpiresActive On ExpiresByType image/gif A864000 ExpiresByType image/jpeg A864000 ExpiresByType text/css A864000 ExpiresByType text/javascript A864000 ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A864000 </IfModule>