diff --git a/nginx/development b/nginx/development
index 0054c8c26..fdfd14e1d 100644
--- a/nginx/development
+++ b/nginx/development
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ server {
     # directly serve images and static files from the
     # bookwyrm filesystem using sendfile.
     # make the logs quieter by not reporting these requests
-    location ~ \.(bmp|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|tif|tiff|ttf|webp|css|js)$ {
+    location ~ \.(bmp|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|svg|tif|tiff|ttf|webp|css|js)$ {
         root /app;
         try_files $uri =404;
         add_header X-Cache-Status STATIC;
diff --git a/nginx/production b/nginx/production
index 7cc0bad22..296ede70c 100644
--- a/nginx/production
+++ b/nginx/production
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ server {
 #     # directly serve images and static files from the
 #     # bookwyrm filesystem using sendfile.
 #     # make the logs quieter by not reporting these requests
-#     location ~ \.(bmp|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|tif|tiff|ttf|webp|css|js)$ {
+#     location ~ \.(bmp|ico|jpg|jpeg|png|svg|tif|tiff|ttf|webp|css|js)$ {
 #         root /app;
 #         try_files $uri =404;
 #         add_header X-Cache-Status STATIC;