Reverse Proxy with caching

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 06:59:32AM -0400, infestdead wrote:

> Igor Sysoev Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 03:17:20PM +0200, Smrchy
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > i setup nginx and it's working great for us for
> > static files. I'm wondering
> > > if nginx would be suited for the following
> > scenario:
> > > 
> > > We have an application server that has a lot of
> > .php files and even more
> > > static files (.gif, .jpg etc).
> > > 
> > > Can i put nginx in front of if like a proxy but
> > have nginx cache the static
> > > files (everything except the .php stuff). So
> > that only .php requests reach
> > > the server and the static files will be cached
> > on the nginx machine once the
> > > get retrieved from the upstream server.
> > 
> > First, you may separate static files from PHP:
> > 
> > server {
> > 
> >     location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png)$ {
> >         root                 /data/www;
> >     }
> > 
> >     location ~ \.php$ {
> >         proxy_pass           http://backend;
> >     }
> > 
> > However, you have to retrieve the files by
> > yourself.
> > 
> > Second, you may use mirror on demand:
> > 
> > server {
> > 
> >     location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png)$ {
> >         root                 /data/www;
> >         error_page           404 = @fetch;
> >     }
> > 
> >     location @fetch {
> >         internal;
> > 
> >         proxy_pass           http://backend;
> >         proxy_store          on;
> >         proxy_store_access   user:rw  group:rw 
> > all:r;
> >         proxy_temp_path      /data/temp;
> > 
> >         root                 /data/www;
> >     }
> > 
> >     location ~ \.php$ {
> >         proxy_pass           http://backend;
> >     }
> > 
> 
> When I try using proxy_pass within location ~ something I get :
> : "proxy_pass" may not have URI part in location given by regular expression, or inside named location, or inside the "if" statement, or inside the "limit_except" block in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:52
> 
> the line is proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
> 
> Do you have an idea what the problem might be?

-     proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
+     proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;


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