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+<VirtualHost *:8080>
+    ServerName localhost
+
+    DocumentRoot "/app"
+
+    <Location "/">
+        # disable cache entriely by default (apart from Etag which is accurate enough)
+        Header add Cache-Control "private no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0"
+        CacheDisable on
+        ExpiresActive off
+
+        # also turn off last-modified since they are just the timestamps of the file in the docker image
+        # and may or may not bear any resemblance to when the resource changed
+        Header add Last-Modified ""
+
+        DirectoryIndex index.html
+    </Location>
+
+    # assets can be cached because they have hashed filenames
+    <Location "/assets">
+        ExpiresActive on
+        ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 week"
+        Header add Cache-Control "public, no-transform"
+    </Location>
+
+    <Location "/apple-app-site-association">
+        ForceType application/json
+    </Location>
+</VirtualHost>
+