Cookies provide a great way to manage dynamic websites, and track user sessions. They even make it easy to personalize user experience. If you want to terminate user sessions or make them logout, so that you can apply new changes to your website, you can simply set cookie expiry date for each session. Let us take a look at how to set cookie expiration in NGINX.
How to Set Cookie Expiration in NGINX
Here are the steps to set cookie expiration in NGINX.
1. Open NGINX Config File
Open NGINX config file in a text editor
$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
2. Set Cookie Expiration
You can set the cookie expiration in NGINX with expires directive. If you want to expire all cookies in 1 day, add the following line of code in your server block
server {
expires 1d;
...
}
You can add the same directive in a location block too.
location / {
expires 1d;
...
}
If you only want to expire cookies for all URLs in a specific directory (e.g /product/),
location /product/ {
expires 1d;
...
}
3. Reload NGINX web server
Test the config file to ensure there are no errors.
$ sudo nginx -t
If you get no error message, reload NGINX server to apply changes.
$ sudo service nginx reload
Now NGINX will automatically expire user cookies, as per your configuration.
