Am completely sure its possible, am just not the nginx specialist, so i
might not point you to the best directions.

But as far as i understand in my little time together with things beautiful
thing called nginx, you should have a look on this:

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#root

let me know the results you achieve, since i'll be soon passing by the same
problem :P


On 18 April 2013 17:19, <kristofer@cybernetik.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using nginx as a reverse proxy to cache content for an application.
> Requests to the application are expensive, so I would like to set up
> caching so that if the file exists in nginx, it won't even bother querying
> the backend server.
>
> I can't seem to figure out what I am missing.
>
> This is how I am set up:
>
> location /download {
> index index.html index.htm;
> proxy_pass http://x.x.x.x/download;
> proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
> proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
> proxy_set_header Host application.domain.com;
> proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding "";
> proxy_ignore_headers Set-Cookie X-Accel-Expires Expires Cache-Control;
> if_modified_since off;
> add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
>
> proxy_cache_valid 200 24h;
> expires 168h;
> proxy_cache staticfilecache;
> }
>
> proxy_cache_path /var/www/nginxcache/ levels=1:1:2
> keys_zone=staticfilecache:2000m inactive=10800m;
> proxy_cache_key "$scheme$host$request_uri$cookie_user";
>
> So for all requests to /download, I want it to serve strictly from the
> cache. I do not want it to query the proxy_pass location at all (not even
> for last modified time) if the file exists in the local cache. I just want
> it to serve the cached copy and be done.
>
> Is this possible?
>
>
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