favicon expires every week

Posted October 15, 2014

Guys I need to set my favicon.ico to expire every week in my nginx server block, so how can I do that? P.S. I’m on centos 7 LEMP stack

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Andrew SB • October 15, 2014

A pretty common approach is to set an expires time on all static assets:

location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
    expires 24hr;
}

If you want to just set it for the favicon, you can uses something like:

location = /favicon.ico {
    expires 24hr;
}

For more info, check out the documentation on the Nginx headers module.