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Testing A Website

They have: 42 posts

Joined: Jun 2009

Hi ! everyone , i have made a css html based website and i am done with the checking of links and design and everything .
Now when i use browser to test it they save the site in the cache and later on when i want to surf it , it shows me the older pages saved in the browser cache . I have deleted my cache and browser history but still its the same .
I wanted to know how do you guys test a website after you are done with creating it .....

Thanks

He has: 582 posts

Joined: May 2007

How are you testing? Pages served from the local file system are not cached, so you should not see a problem there. If you have a test server on your machine - e.g. Apache - you can set it up to send "no-cache" headers.

Without control of your test environment, you can try using "shift" while clicking the reload button. (Sometimes "Ctrl" works if "shift" does not.)

Read a bit more about the cache on this Caching Tutorial.

Hope this helps.

Cordially, David
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Greg K's picture

He has: 1,911 posts

Joined: Nov 2003

Another issue may be if your ISP caches the content with a proxy server.

-Greg

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Joined: Jun 2009

upload to the server, and test it on different browers