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How To Disable Nginx Caching

  • Click Login to cPanel under the Actions Menu

  • Navigate to the Files section and click on File Manager

  • Click the Settings icon located on the upper right hand corner of the page

  • Select Show Hidden Files (dotfiles) and click Save

  • Navigate to the folder for your website
    Note: for this example we will assume that your website is under public_html
  • Right-click the file named .htaccess and select Code Edit

  • Click Edit in the Code Editor dialog box

  • Add the following code in the text field provided: 
    <FilesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css|php)>
FileETag None
Header unset ETag
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
Header set Pragma "no-cache"
Header set Expires "Fri, 13 Feb 1976 06:00:00 GMT"
</FilesMatch>
  • Click Save Changes

Caching for your website is now disabled.  You will need to add the code above for every folder that needs caching disabled.  To re-enable caching, you can delete the code or add a pound sign(#) in front of every line.

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