Am completely sure its possible, am just not the nginx specialist, so i might not point you to the best directions.
But as far as i understand in my little time together with things beautiful thing called nginx, you should have a look on this: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#root let me know the results you achieve, since i'll be soon passing by the same problem :P On 18 April 2013 17:19, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am using nginx as a reverse proxy to cache content for an application. > Requests to the application are expensive, so I would like to set up > caching so that if the file exists in nginx, it won't even bother querying > the backend server. > > I can't seem to figure out what I am missing. > > This is how I am set up: > > location /download { > index index.html index.htm; > proxy_pass http://x.x.x.x/download; > proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; > proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; > proxy_set_header Host application.domain.com; > proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding ""; > proxy_ignore_headers Set-Cookie X-Accel-Expires Expires Cache-Control; > if_modified_since off; > add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status; > > proxy_cache_valid 200 24h; > expires 168h; > proxy_cache staticfilecache; > } > > proxy_cache_path /var/www/nginxcache/ levels=1:1:2 > keys_zone=staticfilecache:2000m inactive=10800m; > proxy_cache_key "$scheme$host$request_uri$cookie_user"; > > So for all requests to /download, I want it to serve strictly from the > cache. I do not want it to query the proxy_pass location at all (not even > for last modified time) if the file exists in the local cache. I just want > it to serve the cached copy and be done. > > Is this possible? > > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx >
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