Pagespeed caching css, annoying to develop

css caching pagespeed
patnz picture patnz · Feb 14, 2011 · Viewed 26k times · Source

I'm working on a site which I havent coded from scratch and in firebug the css files are being displayed as: style.css.pagespeed.ce.5d2Z68nynm.css with the pagespeed extension. Can anyone tell me what's doing this as I can't find it. I'm guessing mod-pagespeed possibly running on server? I want to turn it off for now because it's caching my css and stopping updates which is really annoying to develop with.

Thanks in advance.

Answer

chirale picture chirale · Apr 18, 2012

Alister is right. There are other two ways I know to do this. With a .htaccess shared through many domains and you want to disable PageSpeed only on a single domain, you can add to the bottom of the .htaccess file:

<IfModule pagespeed_module>
  ...
  ModPagespeedDisallow http://www.example.com/*
</IfModule>

It means that you can have two domains, one for the developement (ModPagespeedDisallow) and one with ModPagespeed active. Never tried but should it works, avoiding visitor getting a not optimized page during development.

Or you can add ?ModPagespeed=off to the url as stated on mod_pagespeed FAQ.

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