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gistfile1.txt
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/main.<?php echo filemtime('/path/to/css/main.css'); ?>.css" />
<script language="javascript" src="/js/common.<?php echo filemtime('/path/to/js/common.js'); ?>.js">
</script>
# Add a rewrite in apache
RewriteRule ^(css|js)/(.*)\.[0-9]+\.(.*)$ /$1/$2.$3 [L]
# nginx
rewrite ^(css|js)/(.*)\.[0-9]+\.(.*)$ /$1/$2.$3 last;
# not using php? use whatever language to generate a new unique number, preferably based on the time the file was last modified
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