Set expires to max for all images of all servers in nginx

Question

I have an nginx setup with multiple server blocks. I'd like to know if there's a way to globally set the value of expires to max for all images, CSS and JS across the server.

I know I can use this:

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

But then I'd have to add it to every server block, since location isn't allowed in http.

Is there a way to set expires to max for specific mime-types or extensions, globally?

you can add it in a separate config file, and import it in all ur servers — Mohammad AbuShady, Jun 22 '13 at 17:08
@MohammadAbuShady that would be the awesome workaround (thanks!) :) I'll use that unless/until a neater syntax is possible. Could you write an example for this workaround? — , Jun 22 '13 at 17:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 22 '13 at 18:08

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Try it first cause I haven't tested this before.

conf file /etc/nginx/img-cache.conf for example

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

server

server {
    #bla bla
    include /etc/nginx/img-cache.conf;
    #bla bla
}

answered Jun 22 '13 at 18:08

Mohammad AbuShady

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does it work if you comment the `expires` line but leave the include ? – Mohammad AbuShady Mar 10 '14 at 20:02
How did you make it work? If I do this my images get broken too, and I think it may be because I need to write a root directive somewhere but I don't see how to write it once for all my websites... – Shautieh Jul 26 '15 at 17:12
My webpage started hanging after i did this. – Rakshith Jul 29 '15 at 09:09
The page keeps displaying as loading but never loads – Rakshith Jul 29 '15 at 13:51
@Rakshith I don't think this could be caused by this, if you want you could post your config in a new question and I'll take a look at it. – Mohammad AbuShady Jul 29 '15 at 13:52

Set expires to max for all images of all servers in nginx

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