A Challenging Config

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:30:13AM +1000, SplitIce wrote:

> Ok, Ive been working on a project for a long time. It involves automated
> config file building for the nginx web server :)
> Now im adding caching. The user of the software can using the interface
> select regex's to apply caching logic to.
> 
> Ive devided the cache types into 3 types:
> 1. CACHE: Cache if possible
> 2. FORCE-CACHE: Cache always, ignore Cache-Control headers
> 3. NEVER CACHE
> 
> all other traffic is caught by the default "/" location. Execution order
> for these statements is from 1->3 (e.g 3 should override 1).
> 
> I have a couple questions:
> 
> 1) How can I ignore the effect of cache control on caching?
> proxy_hide_header?

http://nginx.org/r/proxy_ignore_headers

> 2) What is the most efficient order to acheive this caching override
> system, my origional idea was to just use location blocks like
> 
> location ~ to_cache {
>      proxy_cache ....;
>      proxy_pass ....;
> }
> 
> location ~ not_to_cache {
>      proxy_cache off;
>      proxy_pass ....;
> }
> 
> location / {
>     proxy_pass ....;
> }
> 
> is this right? Im not really sure I understand the wiki text on matching
> order.

Try official docs instead, it might be better:

http://nginx.org/r/location

Maxim Dounin