This is exactly what is in place right now. I've written a filter in Tomcat to set the "Expires" header, and Apache honors it. However, when a page changes, I don't want to have to wait 24 hours for that change to reflect in the cache, and I don't want to have to clear the whole cache either. I want to selectively "push" the change to the cache by clearing that specific page from the apache cache so that the next time it is requested, it will be regenerated with the new content and cached.
-----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:36 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clearing cache selectively on Apache + mod_cache I guess it all depends on your definition of "dynamic", and how you handle this at the source. When your Tomcat generates an answer page, it can add HTTP headers that indicate for how long this content is valid. If it doesn't, then by default this means that the page is effectively "dynamic" (meaning that each request could theoretically return a different answer next time). What I mean by this, is that if your Tomcat added the right "Expires" header in the first place (saying 24 hours), then you would have what you seem to want, without having to do anything special in addition. I would expect mod_cache at the Apache level, to take this information into account, and serve the local copy instead of asking Tomcat again, at least during these 24 hours. Then, when mod_cache realises that the page's "valid until" date has passed, it will request a new version from Tomcat automatically. So, is there any particular reason why the above scheme is not applicable in your case ? Karim Zaki wrote: > But that would be like re-implementing mod_cache, wouldn't it? Apache is > already doing this for me. It's caching the dynamic content, keeping it for > 24 hours, and checking if it's in cache before requesting it from the > back-end server. The only problem is that I need to sometimes clear certain > pages from cache. > > -----Original Message----- > From: André Warnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:00 PM > To: users@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clearing cache selectively on Apache + > mod_cache > > Karim Zaki wrote: >> Greetings all, >> >> I'm running Apache/2.2.10 (Win32) mod_jk/1.2.27 + mod_cache. I'm looking for >> a way to clear the cache from Apache for specific URLs. I'm using Apache to >> cache dynamic content that is served by Tomcat, and I would like to keep the >> content (age) high (e.g. 24 hours) but still to be able to clear the cache >> for specific pages when the content is updated. Is there a way to tell >> Apache to clear the cache for a specific list of URLs? >> > Hi. > I am not going to answer your original question, but I just have a > couple of remarks based on your description above, and maybe a different > way of thinking about this. > > You say that you want to cache dynamic content generated by Tomcat, for > 24 hours. > In other words, it is not really dynamic content, because for 24 hours > your users are going to get the same unique version. > > If so, then why would you not generate these pages in advance, and put > them somewhere on your Apache server to be served as static content ? > Then each 24 hours you can do the same and refresh them from Tomcat. > (This would be fairly simple to do using a script, calling something > like wget or curl, or in perl using LWP). > > I believe it is fairly simple to configure your Apache in such a way > that it will look first of this URL is available as a static page, and > if not forward the call to Tomcat. > (using mod_rewrite e.g.). > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
