Refreshing static html cache on asp.net core 2.0

Question

I'm busy building a website using asp.net core 2.0, and it's hosted on a Ubuntu 16.04 server with Nginx acting as a proxy. It's not a live environment but a local.

What I would like to know is, when updating static view's, eg. the about page with extra content, and upload it to the dev server, it does not update until I restart the service that the site is running under. Is there any way to get around that, so that when I upload the content, it automatically refreshes.

I've used this guide to setup Nginx and asp.net core 2.0 on the Ubuntu server :

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/linuxproduction?tabs=aspnetcore2x

Answer 1

You should be serving static files directly from nginx instead of doing it through .NET

Assuming you have /css , /js for your assets located in your /www/inetpub/assets folder then you would add below to your nginx config

location ~* ^/(css|js)/ {
   root /www/inetpub/assets;
}

This will server css from /www/inetpub/assets/css folder