Is your webserver directly talking to users or are you using a proxy? You can do this in mongrel, but generally you can configure your proxy to serve these files directly. It's much faster to serve them statically.
For nginx, you can use the following... http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxRubyonRailsMongrel in your server block, add the following (it will statically serve and set the expiration date to the maximum allowed for images, javascript and css). location ~* \.(js|css|jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ { if (-f $request_filename) { expires max; break; } } Note that you'll have to make sure that when you change css/javascript/images to either create a new file or add query parameters to defeat the caching (this is done for you in rails by default). Additionally, if you're dynamically rendering CSS or JS, then this will break as well. Also make sure that you've configured gzip compression for text files (css/javascript) in nginx as well. This will also give you a big speed improvement for most of your clients. - scott On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Scott Derrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using mongrel as my http server. > > I was using yslow to evaluate the performance of my web site and noticed > I was downloading the .css file on every request??? I use one .css file > for the whole site and I though I would be cached? > > Yslow indicates that there is no expires date/time set for the css file. > > How can I tell mongrel to send an expires header with my static content? > > thanks, > Scott > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users >
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