Purge the Nginx cache

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 03:59:48PM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

Hi there,

> I am following https://bluegrid.io/edu/how-to-purge-the-nginx-cache/ and
> have attached the nginx config file for your reference. I am running nginx
> version: nginx/1.20.2 on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
> 
> #curl -I https://testnginxproxycachepurge.testintcraft.com -H 'Cache-Purge:
> true'
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> *X-Cache-Status: HIT*
> 
> Please guide me. Thanks in advance.

You made a curl request for https://testnginxproxycachepurge.testintcraft.com.

Your config for that request (location /) includes

	proxy_cache_bypass $bypass;
	proxy_cache_bypass $no_cache $nouricache;

Each of those variables is 0 or empty, so "X-Cache-Status: HIT"
is correct.

If you want to bypass the cache, you must make at least one of those
variables have a different value.

For local testing, you could try adding something like

	map $http_cache_purge $bypass {
		default 0;
		true 1;
	}

beside your other "map" directives; but you should understand what
that does, and how it compares to what you want, before running it
in production.



If there are follow-up questions, it might be worth explaining what
exactly it is that you want to achieve.

The "normal" nginx behaviour when caching is enabled, is: a request comes
from the client; nginx looks in the cache to see if it has a response
for that that request that is still valid; if there is a valid response,
nginx writes it to the client; if there is not a valid response, nginx
makes a request of upstream, gets the response, writes it to the cache
with a suitable "valid" time, and writes it to the client.

Pretty much every step of that can be changed by configuration.

I *think* that the thing that you want to do is: for some specific
requests, instead of nginx sending a valid response from its cache,
nginx should make a request of upstream and write the new response to
the cache (as well as sending it to the client).

If that is not it -- or if you want to give a more specific description
of "some specific requests" -- then adding the details will help other
people to be able to provide a good answer.

Good luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org