ExpiresDefault help needed

I am a begginer with Apache and need help.
There is server directory /images containting gifs which do not change often.
I created .htaccess file in directory containing:

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A86400

I tried even with
<File "*.gif">
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A86400
</File>

In both cases server returned :
HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 15:05:24 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) PHP/4.2.1
Connection: close

What am I doing wrong?
Can somebody please help with the right synthax.
TIA
Hot

hot_sosage@yahoo.com wrote:
> <File "*.gif">

From the documentation of Apache doesn't seem that the Expires
directives can be applied in a <file> block. Check the error_log
file.

Davide

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