When replacing an existing PDF, browsers don\u2019t serve the latest version. They usually serve the cached version. To change that, we use Apache directives as below:<\/p>\n
The instruction above includes more than just PDF.<\/p>\n Another solution is using Source: \u201cHow to force an update of cached files, images, favicon<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When replacing an existing PDF, browsers don\u2019t serve the latest version. They usually serve the cached version. To change that, we use Apache directives as below: # Instruct browsers to always check for the latest version of your files using Apache directives <IfModule mod_headers.c> <FilesMatch "(?i)^.*\\.(css|htm|html|gif|jpg|jpeg|js|png|pdf)$"> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0,must-revalidate" <\/FilesMatch> <\/IfModule> The instruction above … Continue reading “Force Update of PDFs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sls.gmu.edu\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}# Instruct browsers to always check for the latest version of your files using Apache directives
\n<IfModule mod_headers.c>
\n\t<FilesMatch "(?i)^.*\\.(css|htm|html|gif|jpg|jpeg|js|png|pdf)$">
\n\t\tHeader set Cache-Control "max-age=0,must-revalidate"
\n\t<\/FilesMatch>
\n<\/IfModule><\/code><\/p>\n?ver=x.x<\/code> in the URL. For example:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.law.gmu.edu\/assets\/css\/2015\/style.css?ver=2.0 <\/code><\/p>\nx.x<\/code> could be any number. <\/p>\n