Ok all my wordpress and joomla site I can always put this into my Nginx website config and it enables browser-side caching.
# Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc|js|css)$ {
expires 1M;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
This same code in Moodle makes all my images disappear. Does anyone have the right way to enable browser caching in moodle with nginx?
Moodle already has browser side caching - hence 'Developer_tools#Purge_all_caches' - so what evidence do you have that its not?
Well, the fact that it's not tweakable. That you can't set an expiration date on the cache. That you can't select what you want to cache. (images, video, CSS, js, etc)
I think the 'Developer_tools#Purge_all_caches' refers to the internal file caches that moodle builds up for speed.
Browser-side caching is different. You are telling the browser what elements it should cache and for how long it should cache it for.
These two caches are fundamentally different, though I appreciate the effort.