is htaccess used

I’ve got a new install of w3tc and was not getting results I expected for browser caching of images. I looked in my .htaccess file and there are no entries for W3TC. Is this normal. My memory is that at least once upon a time there were a lot of entries in .htaccess from this plugin.
My .htaccess permissions are 644.

Any thoughts? If indeed they are missing, is there a set of prescribed additions to the file I can manually add or do the entries rely on my individual configuration?

• This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by John.