Disable caching of a single file with try_files directive

Issue

I'm serving Angular 2 application with nginx using location section this way:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}

try_files directive tries to find the requested uri in root directory and if it fails to find one it simply returns index.html

How to disable caching of index.html file?

Solution

Found a solution using nginx named locations:

location / {
    gzip_static on;
    try_files $uri @index;
}

location @index {
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache;
    expires 0;
    try_files /index.html =404;
}

Answered By - Roman Kolesnikov