Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Get error when setting Browsercache Set expires header
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Get error when setting Browsercache Set expires header

 *  [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/)
 * (@houmie)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-get-error-when-setting-browsercache-set-expires-header/)
 * Hi,
 * I would really appreciate your help.
 * Whenever I set the Set expires header in Browser cache I get a http 500 error.
 * I have then to SSH into the server and remove these entries in order to make 
   it work again.
 * What am I missing please?
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_mime.c>
           AddType text/css .css
           AddType application/x-javascript .js
           AddType text/x-component .htc
           AddType text/html .html .htm
           AddType text/richtext .rtf .rtx
           AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz
           AddType text/plain .txt
           AddType text/xsd .xsd
           AddType text/xsl .xsl
           AddType text/xml .xml
           AddType video/asf .asf .asx .wax .wmv .wmx
           AddType video/avi .avi
           AddType image/bmp .bmp
           AddType application/java .class
           AddType video/divx .divx
           AddType application/msword .doc .docx
           AddType application/vnd.ms-fontobject .eot
           AddType application/x-msdownload .exe
           AddType image/gif .gif
           AddType application/x-gzip .gz .gzip
           AddType image/x-icon .ico
           AddType image/jpeg .jpg .jpeg .jpe
           AddType application/vnd.ms-access .mdb
           AddType audio/midi .mid .midi
           AddType video/quicktime .mov .qt
           AddType audio/mpeg .mp3 .m4a
           AddType video/mp4 .mp4 .m4v
           AddType video/mpeg .mpeg .mpg .mpe
           AddType application/vnd.ms-project .mpp
           AddType application/x-font-otf .otf
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database .odb
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart .odc
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula .odf
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics .odg
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation .odp
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet .ods
           AddType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text .odt
           AddType audio/ogg .ogg
           AddType application/pdf .pdf
           AddType image/png .png
           AddType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint .pot .pps .ppt .pptx
           AddType audio/x-realaudio .ra .ram
           AddType application/x-shockwave-flash .swf
           AddType application/x-tar .tar
           AddType image/tiff .tif .tiff
           AddType application/x-font-ttf .ttf .ttc
           AddType audio/wav .wav
           AddType audio/wma .wma
           AddType application/vnd.ms-write .wri
           AddType application/vnd.ms-excel .xla .xls .xlsx .xlt .xlw
           AddType application/zip .zip
       </IfModule>
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
           ExpiresActive On
           ExpiresByType text/css A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A31536000
           ExpiresByType text/x-component A31536000
           ExpiresByType text/html A3600
           ExpiresByType text/richtext A3600
           ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A3600
           ExpiresByType text/plain A3600
           ExpiresByType text/xsd A3600
           ExpiresByType text/xsl A3600
           ExpiresByType text/xml A3600
           ExpiresByType video/asf A31536000
           ExpiresByType video/avi A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/bmp A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/java A31536000
           ExpiresByType video/divx A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/msword A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-fontobject A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-msdownload A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/gif A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-gzip A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/x-icon A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/jpeg A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-access A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/midi A31536000
           ExpiresByType video/quicktime A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/mpeg A31536000
           ExpiresByType video/mp4 A31536000
           ExpiresByType video/mpeg A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-project A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-font-otf A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.database A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.formula A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.graphics A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/ogg A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/pdf A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/png A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-powerpoint A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/x-realaudio A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-tar A31536000
           ExpiresByType image/tiff A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/x-font-ttf A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/wav A31536000
           ExpiresByType audio/wma A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-write A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/vnd.ms-excel A31536000
           ExpiresByType application/zip A31536000
       </IfModule>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [houmie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/houmie/)
 * (@houmie)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-get-error-when-setting-browsercache-set-expires-header/#post-2500131)
 * I am pretty much stuck on this and googling for two days without any clear solution
   to this.
 *     ```
       [Wed Jan 11 07:29:35 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.11 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8k configured -- resuming normal operations
       [Wed Jan 11 07:29:38 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/wp-content/w3tc/min/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here
       [Wed Jan 11 07:29:42 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/wp-content/w3tc/min/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here
       [Wed Jan 11 07:33:36 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here, referer: https://www.xxx.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=w3tc_browsercache
       [Wed Jan 11 07:33:36 2012] [alert] [client xxxxx] /var/www/xxx/.htaccess: ExpiresActive not allowed here
       ```
   
 * I have already sudo a2enmod expires
 * The moment I insert this into the .htaccess file I get the 500 Error again:
 *     ```
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
         ExpiresActive On
         ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 hour"
       </IfModule>
       ```
   
 *  [andreasbecker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andreasbecker/)
 * (@andreasbecker)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-get-error-when-setting-browsercache-set-expires-header/#post-2500289)
 * You need to add ‘Indexes’ to the “AllowOverride” line… f.e.
 *     ```
       <Directory /var/www/>
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
       AllowOverride FileInfo Options Indexes
       Order allow,deny
       allow from all
       </Directory>
       ```
   

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