tech: don't cache HTML

Thanks to
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/
how-to-implement-browser-caching-with-nginx-s-header-module-on-centos-7
for teaching.

diff --git a/notes/tech_tasks.txt b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
index bac30d2..b35253b 100644 (file)
--- a/notes/tech_tasks.txt
+++ b/notes/tech_tasks.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ put (partial?) post slug back in footnotes (needed to disambiguate on multi-post
 bigger click-target pagination links
 verify my domain with Search Console so that I can see search keywords
 restrict "fiction" to "longform" (not dialogues) (I made the opposite call at some point, and I think I want to reverse it)
-What's going on with caching behavior??
 404 page??
 glitchiness in "Editorial Process"
 link to archives page

diff --git a/provisioning/nginx_siteconf b/provisioning/nginx_siteconf
index 2f2cd07..8db2fce 100644 (file)
--- a/provisioning/nginx_siteconf
+++ b/provisioning/nginx_siteconf
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+map $sent_http_content_type $expires {
+    default                    off;
+    text/html                  epoch;
+}
+
 server {
         listen 80 default_server;
         listen [::]:80 default_server;
@@ -8,6 +13,8 @@ server {
 
         server_name _;
 
+        expires $expires;
+
         location / {
             # First attempt to serve request as file, then
             # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
@@ -30,7 +37,7 @@ server {
 
         location /static { # gitweb static files
             root /usr/share/gitweb;
-            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;   
+            try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
         }
 
 }