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About

The page cache expiration frequency is a metadata that permits to

  • schedule the page cache expiration time
  • for only one page
  • based on a cron expression

Example

To refresh the cache of your page:

  • at midnight daily:
@daily
  • at 12:02 on Monday
02 12 * * 1
  • at midnight monthly:
@monthly

More examples can be seen on this page.

Syntax

The value is a cron expression

  • named (@daily)
  • or in the full format
┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * *

We recommend the excellent crontab.guru wizard to create and validate your cron value

How to set the cache expiration frequency

You can set it in the cache tab of the the metadata manager

Combostrap Cache Expiration Frequency

How to check the next expiration date

The expiration date can be seen in the cache tab of the metadata manager.