diff --git a/changelog/items/other/nginx-prune-hot-reload.md b/changelog/items/other/nginx-prune-hot-reload.md
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+- Hot reload Nginx after pruning cache files.
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diff --git a/scripts/nginx-prune.sh b/scripts/nginx-prune.sh
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 # We execute the nginx cache pruning subscript from docker container so that we
 # can run the pruning script in user crontab without sudo.
-
 docker run --rm -v /home/user:/home/user bash /home/user/skynet-webportal/scripts/lib/nginx-prune-cache-subscript.sh
+
+# Some cache files are deleted, but are kept open, we hot reload nginx to get
+# them closed and removed from filesystem.
+docker exec nginx nginx -s reload