Nginx Font Cashing - nginx

Question

I'm desperately trying to figure out a way to set an expiry date on fonts in nginx to optimize on mobile.
I'm interested for ttf fonts.
I have mime.types as fallows:
application/font-woff woff;
application/vnd.ms-fontobject eot;
application/x-font-ttf ttc ttf;
font/opentype otf;
image/svg+xml svg svgz;
And on Nginx I have tried every solution I found on the web to no avail:
Try #1:
location ~* \.(?:eot|woff|woff2|ttf|svg|otf) {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
expires 365d;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
types {font/truetype ttf;}
}
Fail NO Expiry:
Request URL: http://localhost:3001/static/media/Poppins-Regular.8081832f.ttf
Request Method: GET
Status Code: 200 OK
Remote Address: [::1]:3001
Referrer Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/x-font-ttf
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:33:55 GMT
ETag: W/"60660e52-269f0"
Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:17:54 GMT
Server: nginx/1.15.2
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9
Connection: keep-alive
Host: localhost:3001
Origin: http://localhost:3001
Referer: http://localhost:3001/static/css/main.06159cd9.chunk.css
Sec-Fetch-Dest: font
Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
Sec-Fetch-Site: same-origin
Sec-GPC: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0; Nexus 5 Build/MRA58N) AppleWebKit/537.36
Try #2:
location ~* \.(woff|ttf|otf|woff2|eot)$ {
expires 365d;
access_log off;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=86400";
add_header X-Asset "yes";
}
Failed: Same result
Try: 3
https://io.24hoursmedia.com/tech-notes/nginx-send-browser-cache-headers-for-static-files
Failed: Same result
Try: 4
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|woff2)$ {
expires 1M;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
Failed: Same result
What I am missing? Please help.

Answer 1

Keep it simple. My NGINX looks like:
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|svg|ico|woff|woff2|ttf)$ {
....
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
}
And the response:
cache-control: max-age=315360000
cache-control: public, no-transform
content-length: 84508
content-type: font/woff2
date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 19:08:55 GMT
etag: "603562a6-14a1c"
expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
last-modified: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:16:38 GMT
server: nginx
I have two different configurations for my fonts ...
types { application/x-font-ttf ttf}
AND
types {font/ttf ttf}
The second one is based on the new font standard released back in 2017.
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#font
... but I haven't seen font/truetype.
More Information: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#types
If you want to fine-tune your expires value take a look here:
https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_headers_module.html#expires
{
map $sent_http_content_type $expires {
default off;
application/pdf 42d;
~image/ max;
}
server {
...
location ~*\.(woff|woff2...)$ {
...
expires $expires;
}
}
}