selective caching

[Jérôme Loyet]

2009/7/25 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
> Hello!
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:46:46AM +0200, Jérôme Loyet wrote:
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>> 2009/7/24 Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru>:
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:29:16PM -0400, vburshteyn wrote:
>> >
>> >> so i am using cache to great effect to cache and speed the site.
>> >>
>> >> I am just curious is there a way to do selective caching?  it is imperitive that i keep one stupid URL from caching.  Is that possible?
>>
>> yes use proxy_cache none;
>
> Have you tried?
>
> There is nothing specifal in "none" used as proxy_cache argument.
> If you want to clear proxy_cache inherited from upper levels you
> should use "off" instead.

Yes you're right, my souvenirs were wrong. I meant "proxy_cache off;".

>
> But this isn't needed in the example below as there is no
> inherited proxy_cache.

You're right again :) I'm sorry my eyes are not going well tonight.

>
> Maxim Dounin
>
>>
>> >
>> > Just configure different locations for urls you want to be cached
>> > and urls you don't want to.  E.g.
>> >
>> >    location / {
>> >        proxy_pass http://...
>> >
>> >        # cache everything here
>> >        proxy_cache blah;
>> >        ...
>> >    }
>> >
>> >    location /do-not-cache-here {
>> >        proxy_pass http://...
>>           proxy_cache none;
>> >    }
>> >
>> > See http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#location for details
>> > about locations.
>> >
>> > Maxim Dounin
>> >
>> >
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