Hello everyone. It's been a while.
I have a problem and I hope someone can help.
I have a HTML file in a folder on a domain like this:
domain.dk/folder/index.html

(Its the ONLY file in the folder)
The problem is I cant clear chomes cached version of the page, if I omit the filename in the url like this
 domain.dk/folder/

I have tried:
F5

Ctrl + F5

Ctrl + r

Ctrl+ shift + r

Opened the inspector, and right-clicked the refresh button to clear cache and hard reload.

Logged out of chrome

Cleared cache in the inspectors application tab

Cleared Local Storage, and Cookies for the domain.
 

No problem if the index.html is in the url, but without, it seems impossible to update the page.

Any ideas?

 

Edited February 19, 20215 yr by Nillervision

I thought only bot farms used Chrome 🤣

I get this all the time with clients who insist on using Chrome.  When you clear history/cache Chrome defaults to only clearing the last hours worth so set that to "everything" and retest.

If you use a different browser do you get the same problem?

Can you test on a different machine with a clean Chrome install?

 

Chrome tries to hang onto your history as much as possible by design, it's all part of Googles surveillance system. If everyone cleared their browsing history regularly then Google would get much less data to use to target ads at you.

or use incognito mode in chrome

Thanks for the reply @BlueDreamer and @davep

The page updated fine in other browsers

Incognito (in chrome) didn't make any difference. The only way I could force chrome to reload the page was by entering the filename in the url. But the changes didn't persist when I went back to the folder url

However after a few days the problem seems to have solved it self. 

I do have mod_expires set in my .htaccess, which might have contributed to Chromes behaviour. But anoying anyway.

6 hours ago, Nillervision said:

I do have mod_expires set in my .htaccess

Ah yes that could be a factor.

5 minutes ago, Rockstarweb said:

just go in to your chrome settings and reset it 

 

this thread is 3 months - fairly safe to assume they've fixed it

or use incognito mode in chrome