I am running an application with Play and Java, and I need to set up expiration date for various types of assets: images, css, javascript etc.
I have the following in the conf/routes file:
GET /assets/*file controllers.Assets.at(path="/public", file)
I was able to set expiration date for one individual file in application.conf:
"assets.cache./public/js/pages/validation.js"="max-age=7200"
But I am not able to set it for a whole folder. I have tried
"assets.cache./public/js/pages/*.js"="max-age=7200"
"assets.cache./public/js/pages/*"="max-age=7200"
but nothing happens. I was hoping to set the expiration date for everything in the /js/pages folder.
I've also tried
assets.defaultCache="max-age=7200"
per instructions at http://www.jamesward.com/2014/04/29/optimizing-static-asset-loading-with-play-framework
as well as
http.cacheControl=7200
per documentation http://www.playframework.com/documentation/1.2.3/configuration#http
and none of these work. The changes above were done in application.conf.
I know there is a way to do the same by defining controllers that change the response() for the routes that I want to set the expiration date for: far future Expires header for static contents
But I would like to know how to configure expiration date for assets from the application.conf file.
Our application is running on S3 Linux instances, so configuring the expire date on the server is not an option.
Thank you!