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Leverage browser caching for Nginx

  • Posted on July 28, 2014
  • ganzueloAsked by ganzuelo

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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Andrew SB • July 28, 2014

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;
    }
}
karan kotak • July 29, 2015

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

andrew.kreps • July 28, 2014

try running nginx -t.

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