How do I turn off caching in IIS7?

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I'm developing an ASP classic site under Windows 7 (form a queue ladies). The problem is IIS seems to be heavily making use of its cache for both static and dynamic content which really conflicts with my 'make a small change, alt-tab, hit ctrl-F5' development style. Changes made to .asp files may take two or three refreshes to show up where as changes to .js files can take 20 times as many. How do I go about turning the caching off on my development machine?

Cheers.

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score 26 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 26 '11 at 04:57

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Click on the server name then go to output caching.

Click Add Cache Rule then type the extensions - .aspx, .aspx.vb, .aspx.cs, .js etc. (not sure if you can do all on one)

Then simply either tick the prevent all caching or untick user-mode caching and it should stop IIS from keeping a cache of the pages.

Next time you do a full refresh, it should get the files from the hard drive and not the cache/memory

I do not currently have a machine with IIS7 on that I can muck around with so I Googled and found the picture below:

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edited Aug 26 '11 at 04:57

Gaff

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answered Nov 17 '09 at 23:11

William Hilsum

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This sorted out my issue with caching the responses from a WCF service as well – ste-fu Dec 09 '15 at 16:40
You just made my day William. Thanks for that, it totally fixed my issue. Cheers! – alexGIS May 09 '19 at 22:21
Lot better answer given below, upvote it – Anton Shakalo Mar 03 '20 at 14:31

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 05:23

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This answer helped me, (note: i'm using IIS8) link

I think its better to disable "Cache" of "Output Cache feature" by clicking the "Edit Feature Settings"

answered Apr 17 '13 at 05:23

Ata Iravani

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@slm thanks for your advise. I'll try to add more detail later – Ata Iravani Apr 17 '13 at 06:56

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 30 '09 at 11:09

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This blog might help: Response caching in IIS7.

It explains how this functionality can be controlled by editing system.webServer/caching section or by using IHttpCachePolicy intrinsic.

answered Oct 30 '09 at 11:09

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How do I turn off caching in IIS7?

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