Server is serving old versions of static files, but trimmed or padded to match length of new versions

Question

The symptoms of my problem match this question pretty much exactly: Changed static files are cropped/padded to the new size and served the old - Fedora

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Answer 1

In the end it turned out that this was probably being caused by VM issues. The code in question was located on a Windows drive, but was being served from within a Linux VM that was accessing the code via a shared directory. Remounting the share seemed to fix the problem (although not necessarily reliably).

Answer 2

Virtualbox hates sendfile. If you turn it off it should work.

For example in nginx you would need to add sendfile: off;. In Apache it's just EnableSendfile off.