Ok, I'm almost giving up on this, but how can I disable the caching from Nginx for JavaScript files? I'm using a docker container with Nginx. When I now change something in the JavaScript file, I need multiple reloads until the new file is there.

How do I know it's Nginx and not the browser/docker?

Browser: I used curl on the command line to simulate the request and had the same issues. Also, I'm using a CacheKiller plugin and have cache disabled in Chrome Dev Tools.

Docker: When I connect to the container's bash, and use cat after changing the file, I get the correct result immediately.

I changed my nginx.conf for the sites-enabled to this (which I found in another stackoverflow thread)

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|pdf|txt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|flv|swf|xml|html|htm)$ {

    # clear all access_log directives for the current level

    access_log off;

    add_header Cache-Control no-cache;

    # set the Expires header to 31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT, and the Cache-Control max-age to 10 years

    expires 1s;

}

However, after rebuilding the containers (and making sure it's in the container with cat), it still didn't work. This here is the complete .conf

server {

    server_name app;

    root /var/www/app/web;



    # Redirect to blog

    location ~* ^/blog {

        proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ;

        sub_filter 'https://testproject.wordpress.com/' '/blog/';

        sub_filter_once off;

        rewrite ^/blog/(.*) /$1 break;

        rewrite ^/blog / break;

        proxy_pass     https://testproject.wordpress.com;

    }



    # Serve index.html only for exact root URL

    location / {

        try_files $uri /app_dev.php$is_args$args;

    }



    location ~ ^/(app|app_dev|config).php(/|$) {

        fastcgi_pass php-upstream;

        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.*)$;

        include fastcgi_params;

        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

        fastcgi_param HTTPS off;

        # Prevents URIs that include the front controller. This will 404:

        # http://domain.tld/app_dev.php/some-path

        # Remove the internal directive to allow URIs like this

        internal;

    }



    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|pdf|txt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|js|flv|swf|xml|html|htm)$ {

        # clear all access_log directives for the current level

        access_log off;

        add_header Cache-Control no-cache;

        # set the Expires header to 31 December 2037 23:59:59 GMT, and the Cache-Control max-age to 10 years

        expires 1s;

    }





    error_log /var/log/nginx/app_error.log;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/app_access.log;

}