Nginx as a reverse caching / load balancing solution - verification of setup needed.

[Brent Clark]

Thank you ever so much.

Regards
Brent

On 04/09/2015 13:29, Sebastian Krebs wrote:
>
>
> 2015-09-04 12:04 GMT+02:00 Brent Clark <brentgclarklist at gmail.com
> <mailto:brentgclarklist at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Good day Guys.
>
>     I would like to ask if someone could please verify my configs :
>     http://pastebin.com/8Xk63RYD
>     http://pastebin.com/EfNSpvMV
>
>     I have a Nginx server sitting in front of two Apache servers.
>     I'm using Nginx as a reverse caching / load balancing solution.
>     But what I'm trying achieve is to cache only for images, css and Js.
>
>     All in all it appears it all works.
>
>     The other question I would like to ask is, does the order of location
>     matter?
>
>
> Depends. For regular expression based location is does, for prefix
> based locations it doesn't.
> See http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location
>
>     A location can either be defined by a prefix string, or by a
>     regular expression. Regular expressions are specified with the
>     preceding “~*” modifier (for case-insensitive matching), or the
>     “~” modifier (for case-sensitive matching). *To find location
>     matching a given request, nginx first checks locations defined
>     using the prefix strings (prefix locations). Among them, the
>     location with the longest matching prefix is selected and
>     remembered. Then regular expressions are checked, in the order of
>     their appearance in the configuration file. The search of regular
>     expressions terminates on the first match, and the corresponding
>     configuration is used. If no match with a regular expression is
>     found then the configuration of the prefix location remembered
>     earlier is used.*
>
>  
>
>
>     If anyone can help, it would be appreciated.
>
>     Thanks
>     Brent
>
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