Serve static content from a cookieless domain in NGINX

Very simple one to help anyone out there fix the issue regarding serving static content from a cookieless domain in NGINX. This does not require a CDN or sub domain, etc like most tutorials.

It’s simply a few lines of code to add to your host file:

location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|css|js|scss|map|less|woff|woff2|otf|eot|ttf)$ {
   expires     max;
   fastcgi_hide_header "Set-Cookie";
}

A real example

server {
    listen      185.122.57.134:443 ssl http2;
    server_name blog.ss88.us www.blog.ss88.us;
    root        /XXX/XXX/XXX/public_html;
    index       index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

        location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|css|js|scss|map|less|woff|woff2|otf|eot|ttf)$ {
            expires     max;
            fastcgi_hide_header "Set-Cookie";
        }
}

 

Note: if you use Cloudflare, this will not work.