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how to use Cache-Control with nginx

Hello everyone, I need to cache some images using nginx, I am doing my tests from homestead before uploading it to the server, this is my current configuration for my file /etc/nginx/sites-available/licitaciones.local

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name .licitaciones.local;
    root "/home/vagrant/projects/licitaciones-sw/dev/migration/public_html";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;



    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

    }

    location "/img/publica/empresas-logos/news_grises_web/* \.(webp)$" {
        expires 182d;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/licitaciones.local-error.log error;

    sendfile off;

    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;


        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/licitaciones.local.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/licitaciones.local.key;
}

This is the code that I added to cache the images

location "/img/publica/empresas-logos/news_grises_web/* \.(webp)$" {
        expires 182d;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, no-transform";
    }

after restarting the nginx successfully when I go to the browser the images that are in the specified path have a max-age=0

Any idea that I am wrong, or that it may be happening, thanks in advance

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