Hey folks. I’m running a Laravel Site (Ubuntu) on Nginx (Not a virtual box). When I make changes to a css file, or any file for that matter i’m unable to see the changes right away. I’ve tried changing sendfile from on to off as noted in this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6236078/how-to-clear-the-cache-of-nginx
And I couldn’t find a Nginx cache file to delete the cache. Many sites recommend going to the “path/to/cache” folder but I can’t find it:
https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-caching-guide/
Anyway I don’t believe I set up any kind of proxy caching or anything. Any ideas where I can find my cache so I can delete it folks? For that matter am I looking to do the correct thing here? Thanks for you answer in advance.
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In my case the issue was related to opcache. Disabling it in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini:
opcache.enable=0
does let load the server the latest version of the (php) files again.
Nginx doesn’t do any caching by default. If you haven’t set any caching up in nginx, what makes you think it’s caching anything? And what issue are you trying to solve here that needs this cache cleared?
Good point. Yes I haven’t set up any caching. The problem i’m trying to solve is when I make changes to a css file, or any file for that matter i’m unable to see the changes right away.
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