Reverse Proxy Cache Setup

[royo]

Ryan Malayter Wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:41 AM, royo  wrote:
> > I'm trying to use nginx as a reverse cahce for
> my website which may require people to be logged
> in. I'm trying to figure out how to configure it
> so that users that don't have a certain cookie set
> receive cached pages while others will receive
> non-cached responses, assuming the cookie is
> "logmein".
> 
> Use $http_cookie_$logmein appended to whatever
> you're using for
> proxy_cache_key, so that you get a unique cache
> key for each user.
> This assumes that $logmein has a different value
> for every logged-in
> user (i.e. it is a session ID).
> 
> You can also have the back-end explicitly set
> "Cache-Control:
> no-cache" for logged in pages, so they don't get
> stored by nginx at
> all.
> 
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Thanks Ryan. I don't have much control over the application itself, so I guess I'd need to enforce the caching somehow for users that are logged in and disable it for those that aren't from nginx.

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