.htaccess configuration section container to apply onto a subdirectory

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My host's file structure looks like this:

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./.htaccess
./index.html
./should-not-expire.png
./uploads/should-expire.png
./uploads/should-expire.jpg

How can I ensure that files under the uploads directory are all served with a far future expires header, without serving such a header for index.html or should-not-expire.png?

I've reviewed the sections docs that discuss the <Directory>, <Files>, and <Location> blocks, and it seems like Directory and Location are not allowed in .htaccess, and Files matches only the file name and not any part of the path. For instance, this directive doesn't seem to send the desired headers:

<FilesMatch "uploads">
    ExpiresDefault A604800
</FilesMatch>

It seems like one resort would be to introduce another .htaccess file in the uploads directory. That seems to work fine, but is there any way to do this with just the sole .htaccess?

asked 1 min ago

Steven Xu

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