angularnginx

Disable caching of a single file with try_files directive

I'm serving Angular 2 application with nginx using location section this way:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}

try_files directive tries to find the requested uri in root directory and if it fails to find one it simply returns index.html

How to disable caching of index.html file?

Solution

  • Found a solution using nginx named locations:

    location = / {
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
    expires 0;
    try_files /index.html =404;
}

location / {
    gzip_static on;
    try_files $uri @index;
}

location @index {
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
    expires 0;
    try_files /index.html =404;
}