Page assets NOT caching

[jeking]

I can't figure out why page assets aren't being cached. I've used the steps here:
https://www.zen-cart.com/content.php...ng-page-assets

and here (currently in use):
http://gtmetrix.com/leverage-browser-caching.html

In both cases, css and js files are not being cached. It also says that a cache validator has not been set for gif files.

http://gtmetrix.com/reports/shopasgo...d.com/a2FxcxvI

The entire .htaccess is

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.shopasgoodasgold\.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http\:\/\/shopasgoodasgold\.com\/" [R=301,L]

Redirect 301 /contest/index.html http://shopasgoodasgold.com/index.ph...ndex&cPath=8_1

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 month"
ExpiresDefault "access 2 days"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

[bislewl]

I have had this issue when the server does not support mod_expires

[mprough]

Or of mod_deflate is not enabled, also I prefer the following for your htaccess... note that some servers will need this in the assets directory such as includes/templates/your_template/css/

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A2592000 
<FilesMatch "\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf|swf|mov|mp3|wmv|ppt|mpg|pdf|eot|svg|ttf|woff)$">
  ExpiresDefault A29030400
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$">
  ExpiresDefault A2592000 
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.(php|cgi|pl|htm|html)$">
  ExpiresDefault A0
  Header set Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0"
  Header set Pragma "no-cache"
</FilesMatch>
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
</ifmodule>

~Melanie

[jeking]

If in the assets directory, is it still saved as an .htaccess file?

[mprough]

yes, .htaccess

[jeking]

Thanks for confirming.

I've tried your code (adding it to includes/templates/your_template/css/ didn't make a difference) and it's now reporting that content is being cached! Very oddly though, it says a validator is not specified for gif and png.