URL Shortening
By using Apache's mod_rewrite module, you can greatly shorten your
HTML files by making common locations into one/two letter aliases.
Apache Mod_Rewrite Entry
RewriteMap abbr dbm:/etc/apache/abbr
RewriteRule ^/r/([^/]*)/?(.*) ${abbr:$1}$2
[redirect=permanent,last]
/etc/apache/abbr
b bytes/
d dogs/
g graphics/
gt graphics/template/
HTTP Caching
Use HTTP headers to have finer grained control over browser caching, these
headers include:
Headers
Last-Modified: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:50:00 GMT
Expires: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:52:25 GMT
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, max-age=15, s-maxage=0, private