How to Disable Browser Caching in Nginx: Two Effective Methods

Method 1:

location / {
    index  index.html index.htm;
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache,no-store;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    include mime.types;
    if ($request_filename ~* .*\.(htm|html)$) {
        add_header Cache-Control "private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    }
}

Method 2:

location / {
    index  index.html index.htm;
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache,no-store;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    include mime.types;
    #if ($request_filename ~* .*\.(htm|html)$) {
    #   add_header Cache-Control "private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    #}
}

Additional specific block to handle the index file directly:

location = /index.html {
    #add_header Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate";
    add_header Cache-Control "private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    add_header Pragma "no-cache";
    add_header Expires "0";
}