OK. So I've added an Alias to the apache configuration to accomodate the cache directory. Do I need to add a new handler to serve up the static content? I can only find handlers for php and cgi. I would have thought apache would handle html by default. I hand wrote a simple test html file in the target directory on the server. trying to browse to it achieves the same result: I'm asked to identify the application the machine should use to open the file as it downloads it.
How is it I could discern the actual hearders sent by the server? Could I use wget somehow for that purpose?