selective caching

[Jérôme Loyet]

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;

>
> 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
>
>