How to prevent http file caching in Apache httpd (MAMP)

Tried this? Should work in both .htaccess, httpd.conf and in a VirtualHost (usually placed in httpd-vhosts.conf if you have included it from your httpd.conf)

<filesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css)$">
  FileETag None
  <ifModule mod_headers.c>
     Header unset ETag
     Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
     Header set Pragma "no-cache"
     Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT"
  </ifModule>
</filesMatch>

100% Prevent Files from being cached

This is similar to how google ads employ the header Cache-Control: private, x-gzip-ok="" > to prevent caching of ads by proxies and clients.

From http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/using-http-headers-with-htaccess.html

And optionally add the extension for the template files you are retrieving if you are using an extension other than .html for those.

I had the same issue, but I found a good solution here: Stop caching for PHP 5.5.3 in MAMP

Basically find the php.ini file and comment out the OPCache lines. I hope this alternative answer helps others else out as well.

Based on the example here: http://drupal.org/node/550488

The following will probably work in .htaccess

 <IfModule mod_expires.c>
   # Enable expirations.
   ExpiresActive On

   # Cache all files for 2 weeks after access (A).
   ExpiresDefault A1209600

  <FilesMatch (\.js|\.html)$>
     ExpiresActive Off
  </FilesMatch>
 </IfModule>