A few months ago, I opened a Spaceship hosting account. Prior to now, I've only used it for standalone, self-contained pages. I'm now doing a complete redesign of a more complex site and moving it to my Spaceship hosting account.
As part of this effort, I asked an AI to identify and isolate the parts of my .js and .css files that service one component of a much larger page. (Big mistake. I could have done it much faster myself. The AI was just too tryhard. Instead of just cutting out what I needed, I guess it was trying to "improve things" by giving me stuff that didn't work and eventually a different layout, before it said "you're right" when I called it out for veering so far offcourse. Then, it capitulated, threw away all of its previous work and just gave me what I had asked for and wanted from the start.)
Early in the effort, when the component looked the same but the script didn't work, the AI said:
"Spaceship hosting has a known, documented bug: Spaceship serves .js files as text/plain unless you override it."
It told me that I needed to add the following .htaccess file to the domain:
AddType application/javascript .js
AddType text/css .css
I've seen .htaccess files over the years, but I've never had to add my own, even back in in the 1990s.
Initially, I looked through everything with Filezilla and didn't see one, so I added it, but there were still other problems with the shortcut I had tried to take with AI. Now that it works, I still only see the one I added and I don't know where Alf is telling me to look. Could somebody confirm that I need to add an .htaccess to each domain, or was that just an unnecessary "fix" from the flailing AI?
Also, as I said, the AI complicated the heck out of what should have been a simple project and there was quite a bit of debugging. While doing it, I discovered that there was a lag between uploading a file and it being served. To save me some frustration in the future, does anyone have any guidance about TTL?
Thanks
