[SOLVED] Caching static content css / images not working

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Hello, long time Hugo user for my https://jamescampbell.us site. I am finally trying to optimize load times in NGINX and no matter what I do for the cache settings and cache headers, nothing is being recognized as being cache enabled. Is there a setting in HUGO to ensure this is correct? Thanks

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Setting the cache HTTP headers has nothing to do with hugo, as that setup is specific to your server.

For example, here’s how I set Cache-Control headers on Netlify (netlify.toml):

## Cache Control
# Paste the below in https://play.netlify.com/headers to test
# Set max-age to 1 year (31536000 seconds) for stuff not expected to
# update any time soon.
[[headers]]
  for = "/css/*"
  [headers.values]
    Cache-Control = "public, max-age=31536000"

[[headers]]
  for = "/js/*"
  [headers.values]
    Cache-Control = "public, max-age=31536000"

Hugo 0.43 onwards enables inbuilt fingerprinting (cache-busting). That in addition to the long cache timeouts you set in your HTTP headers might get the end result you want.

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Thanks, I was more wondering if Hugo was somehow disabling cache by manually overwriting something, but it doesn’t appear to be. The headers settings for netlify look great, I am using digital ocean so manually reconfiguring NGINX to get it to work properly.