Thingport/frontend/nginx.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name _;

    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html;

    # Proxy all /api/* requests to the backend container.
    # ^~ forces this prefix match to win over the regex location below -- without it, any
    # backend route ending in one of those extensions (e.g. /api/plate/:id/thumb.jpg, or a
    # plate file download named *.png/*.svg) gets shadowed by the static-asset block and
    # 404s straight out of nginx instead of ever reaching the backend.
    location ^~ /api/ {
        proxy_pass         http://backend:8000;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header   Host              $host;
        proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_read_timeout 60s;
        client_max_body_size 512m;
    }

    # SPA fallback — serve index.html for all non-file requests
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    # Cache fingerprinted static assets aggressively
    location ~* \.(js|css|woff2?|ttf|eot|svg|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
        expires 1y;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
        access_log off;
    }

    location = /manifest.webmanifest {
        types { }
        default_type application/manifest+json;
        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
    }

    # No caching for HTML (so new deployments are picked up)
    location ~* \.html$ {
        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
    }
}