NGINX cache static files

Question

I'm having some trouble defining a rule to cache my static files. I've found this solution:

location ~* \.(ico|js|css|png|gif|jpe?g)$ {   expires 7d; } 

which actually looks like what I need. The problem is, if I include this code into my NGINX.conf, no static files are delivered anymore and my site is blank. Any ideas/hints what might cause this result? Maybe I have to add, that the static files are distributed in different directories :/. My NGINX config file looks like this:

server {   server_name               bla.domain.com;    listen                    80;   root                      /var/repo/;                                 location / {     default_type            text/html;     index                   index.html;      if ($request_method !~ ^(GET)$ ) {       return 444;     }      if ($http_user_agent ~* LWP::Simple|BBBike|wget) {       return 403;     }      if ( $http_referer ~* (babes|forsale|girl|jewelry|love|nudit|organic|poker|porn|sex|teen) ) {       return 403;     }   }    location /bf/football/ {     alias   /var/repos/f20;   }    location /bf/f20/ {     alias   /var/repo/f20;   }    location /bf/zoo/ {     alias   /var/repo/zoo/;   }    location /kbloader/ {     alias   /var/repo/kbloader/;   } } 

Would be nice if someone could help me out with this or point me in the right direction.

Answer 1

Put this before your other location block:

location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {     expires 30d;     add_header Vary Accept-Encoding;     access_log off; } 

That should work.

You could also use this:

## All static files will be served directly. location ~* ^.+\.(?:css|cur|js|jpe?g|gif|htc|ico|png|html|xml|otf|ttf|eot|woff|woff2|svg)$ {     access_log off;     expires 30d;     add_header Cache-Control public;      ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one     ## fell swoop.     tcp_nodelay off;      ## Set the OS file cache.     open_file_cache max=3000 inactive=120s;     open_file_cache_valid 45s;     open_file_cache_min_uses 2;     open_file_cache_errors off; } 

Answer 2

Put this before the server section in nginx config file as shown bellow:

. . . # Expires map map $sent_http_content_type $expires {     default                    off;     text/html                  epoch;     text/css                   max;     application/javascript     max;     ~image/                    max; }  server {    listen 80 default_server;    listen [::]:80 default_server;     expires $expires; . . . 

the ~image will handle all kind of images ( instead of hardcoding them )

for further informations on how to handle nginx caching see link