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POPHP or Apache seems to be caching files read via file_get_contents or include (unwanted behaviour)
 

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    <p>Our web application has version numbers that get served out to the client on each request so we can detect an update to the code (ie rolling updates) and displays a popup informing them to reload to take advantage of the latest update.</p> <p>But I'm experiencing some weird behaviour after the update of the version number on the server, where some requests return the new version number and some return the old, so the popup keeps poping up until you have reloaded the page a few times.</p> <p>Originally I suspected maybe apache was caching files it read off disk via file_get_contents so instead of storing the version number in a plain text file, I now store it in a php file that gets included with each request, but I'm experiencing the exact same issue!</p> <p>Anyone have any ideas what might be causing apache or php it self to be serving out old information after i have done an update?</p> <p>EDIT: I have confirmed its not browser caching as I can have the client generate unique urls to the server (that it can deal with via rewrite) and i still see the same issue where some requests return the old version number and some the new, and clearing the browser cache doesn't help</p> <p>EDIT 2: The response headers as requested</p> <pre><code>HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 16:50:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2-1ubuntu4.7 Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate Pragma: no-cache Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 500 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html </code></pre> <p>EDIT 3: So trying to reproduce to get the response headers I found I could only make it happen going through our full deploy process which involves creating versioned folders storing the code and symlinking the relavant folder into the webroot. Just changing the version number wasn't enough to cause it to happen! So seems to be somehow related to the symlinks i create!</p>
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    1. COAre you absolutely, positively, 100% sure that it's not a browser caching issue?
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    2. CO@Crontab - see update to question! cheers
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    3. COPost the HTTP response headers.
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