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How to provide conditional request settings like timeout or caching?

For example for a plain HTML page

# Regular stuff.
location / {
    ...
}
# Long requests.
location ~ (batch.html|export.html|import.html|csv.html|excel.html|pdf.html) {
    add_header My-Long-Timeout true always;
    include snippets/long_requests.conf;
}

In the browser You go to ‘/batch.html’ and the NGINX will apply these settings and return the the file from the file system.

For a site which URL does not match exactly with the file structure

Like for PHP every request goes through index.php.

If that’s the case then see:

• Working conditional requests for PHP.
• Why conditional requests are harder to implement for PHP?.