From fc391169da695723352bc6e0ed60118d02d978a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:40:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update nginx default config around caching (#32884)

* Update nginx default config around caching

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>

* Update README around caching

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>

---------

Signed-off-by: Michael Telatynski <7t3chguy@gmail.com>
---
 apps/web/README.md                                    | 3 +--
 apps/web/docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template | 6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/apps/web/README.md b/apps/web/README.md
index b84ba0d44e..c0683d7017 100644
--- a/apps/web/README.md
+++ b/apps/web/README.md
@@ -101,8 +101,7 @@ Element requires the following URLs not to be cached, when/if you are serving El
 ```
 /config.*.json
 /i18n
-/home
-/sites
+/version
 /index.html
 ```
 
diff --git a/apps/web/docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template b/apps/web/docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template
index b4690ce146..964e7f2933 100644
--- a/apps/web/docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template
+++ b/apps/web/docker/nginx-templates/default.conf.template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ server {
     root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
     index  index.html;
 
-    # Set no-cache for the version, config and index.html
+    # Set no-cache for the version, config, i18n, and index.html
     # so that browsers always check for a new copy of Element Web.
     # NB http://your-domain/ and http://your-domain/? are also covered by this
 
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ server {
     location = /version {
         add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
     }
+    location /i18n/ {
+        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
+    }
+
     # covers config.json and config.hostname.json requests as it is prefix.
     location /config {
         root /tmp/element-web-config;