Merge pull request #18979 from vector-im/readme-no-cache

Suggest setting Cache-Control: no-cache on / for self-hosters
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James Salter
2021-09-29 13:17:14 +01:00
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@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ Element requires the following URLs not to be cached, when/if you are serving El
/index.html
```
We also recommend that you force browsers to re-validate any cached copy of Element on page load by configuring your
webserver to return `Cache-Control: no-cache` for `/`. This ensures the browser will fetch a new version of Element on
the next page load after it's been deployed. Note that this is already configured for you in the nginx config of our
Dockerfile.
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