I have a nodejs server and SSL enabled nginx on 2 separate machines. Request/response all work properly, however I have some problems getting nginx to cache stuff. My server configuration is below. Initially, I had the proxy cache statement in the 'location /' block, and at the time it was caching only my index page. I read that nginx won't cache requests with set-cookie headers, so I ignored them as well (although it didn't stop my index page from getting cached earlier). I tried fiddling with this for a whole day, but couldn't get nginx to cache my js and css files. Access logs and error logs don't have any unusual entries. What am I doing wrong?


server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com;

ssl_certificate /webserver/nginx/credentials/cert;
ssl_certificate_key /webserver/nginx/credentials/key;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

location ~ .*\.(ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
proxy_pass http://somewhere:80;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;

proxy_ignore_headers "Set-Cookie";
proxy_cache one;
proxy_cache_valid 200 1d;
proxy_cache_valid any 1m;
expires 7d;
proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header updating http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
}

location / {
proxy_pass http://somewhere:80;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_redirect http:// https://;
}
}