Memcached module using unix sockets

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 05:19:55PM -0400, bryanp wrote:

> I configured nginx to try memcached for the page before passing the request to the backend.  However, the memcached module cannot find the data at any key given.  My assumption is that the module does not support unix sockets.  Is this true?
> 
> Configuration example:
> 
> 
>   location / {
>      try_files @memcached @django;
>   }
> 
>   location @memcached {
>     set $memcached_key  ngx$request_uri;
>     memcached_pass      unix:/Users/auser/memcached.sock;
>     default_type        text/html;
>   }
> 
>   location @django {
>     proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
>   }

try_files parameters can be files only, except the last, fallback parameter.
As to using local (and not only) memcached, it's much better to use nginx's
proxy_cache.


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