diff --git a/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx-r1.tmpfiles b/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx-r1.tmpfiles
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..eda6d705bbb23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx-r1.tmpfiles
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+d /var/cache/nginx 0755 root root
+
+# Clean up the cache only on boot to not break running NGINX
+e! /var/cache/nginx/ - - - 0