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I am getting pages loading with a 500 internal server error, due I believe to a directive that Apache has not been configured to allow.

I have AllowOverride set to all, and a .htaccess file, including:

<FilesMatch "\.(eot|ico|pdf|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|swf|ttf|woff)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"
Header set Expires "Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:00:01 UTC"
</FilesMatch>

/var/log/apache2/error.log has:

[Sat Jul 20 15:12:36 2013] [alert] [client 24.15.83.241] /home/jonathan/.htaccess: Invalid command 'Header', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

What do I need to specify so that Apache2 will properly handle the 'Header' directive?

Christos Hayward
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With apache2, just run a2enmod headers and then sudo service apache2 restart and it will install the headers module automatically.

James Pelton
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You'll need to add a line like:

LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so

To your httpd.conf to add support for that. In Ubuntu and similar, you can do a2enmod headers and it'll automatically enable it in your configuration.

Jay
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