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Overview

This article describes how to configure the cache policy of an Nginx server.


Detailed information

HTTP header processing module

You can set any HTTP header as follows.

add_header

  • Syntax: add_header name value.
  • Default value: none.
  • Used fields: http, server, and location.
 

expires

  • Syntax: expires [time|epoch|max|off].
  • Default value: expires off.
  • Used fields: http, server, and location.
  • This directive controls whether an expiration time is set in a response packet. The following describes the Expiration Time.
    • off disables adding or modifying the Expires and Cache-Control response headers.
    • The value of Cache-Control in Time Control. A negative value indicates no-cache.
    • epoch sets the Expires header to 1 January, 1970 00:00:01 GMT.
    • max sets the Expires header to 31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT, and maximizes the Cache-Control to 10 years.
 

Nginx cache settings

The configuration example is as follows:
  • Set the cache duration for php files to one hour.



  • Set php files to no-cache to disable the cache function.



  • Use the following sample configuration file add_header to set a cache policy for dynamic php files.
     
    location ~. *\.php$ {
if ($request_uri! ~ ^/dynamicimg/) {
add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
add_header Pragma no-cache
   }
}

 


Applicable to

  • CDN