Question
Leverage browser caching for Nginx
- Posted July 28, 2014
I am trying to speed up my Wordpress site. On GTmetrix I am receiving a E(50) for Leverage browser caching.
I am trying to add the code below to my /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
}location ~* \.(pdf)$ {
expires 30d;
}
Unfortunately any attempt at restarting nginx ends in a [fail]
Please help!
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You should add that inside of an existing server block. Usually that will be in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
}
location ~* \.(pdf)$ {
expires 30d;
}
}
if you have more than one website create its xyz.conf file and then add this part /etc/nginx/sites-available/xyz.conf or /etc/nginx/conf.d/xyz.conf or wherever your path is
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
}
location ~* \.(pdf)$ {
expires 30d;
}
different .conf file will help you to reduce the confusion
try running nginx -t.
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A “location” directive can only reside inside a server or location block. Might want to check if this is the case :)
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location
2014/07/28 14:09:20 [emerg] 4250#0: “location” directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:74
Can you check for the full error message in
/var/log/nginx/error.log?