Hi,

I'm using nginx with apache2 + mod_php.
Php pages are proxied to apache and nginx handles all static files (css, js, png, jpg, gif).
I have lots of small files (forum design + smilies) ...

Can nginx cache theses files in memory? How?
If so, do I have any benefit with this approach?
Is this faster than serving from disk?

Thanks

N

Hi,

your system has already a file cache memory. It does the trick.
If you want to use nginx cache capabilities, you can make nginx
reverse proxies all requests to apache (even static ones) and set up a
cache (proxy_cache* directives). But ningx will put cached files on
disk et read them on demand. It will benefits of system cache as well.

I asked myself the same question weeks ago but in my case static files
were not on a local disk but on a NFS shared disk. So I let apache to
serve statiques pages as well and cache them localy.

Hope it helps

2009/5/28 nfn <nginx-forum@nginx.us>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using nginx with apache2 + mod_php.
> Php pages are proxied to apache and nginx handles all static files (css, js, png, jpg, gif).
> I have lots of small files (forum design + smilies) ...
>
> Can nginx cache theses files in memory? How?
> If so, do I have any benefit with this approach?
> Is this faster than serving from disk?
>
> Thanks
>
> N
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,2465,2465#msg-2465
>
>
>

On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 14:54 -0400, nfn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using nginx with apache2 + mod_php.
> Php pages are proxied to apache and nginx handles all static files (css, js, png, jpg, gif).
> I have lots of small files (forum design + smilies) ...
>
> Can nginx cache theses files in memory? How?
> If so, do I have any benefit with this approach?
> Is this faster than serving from disk?

You should read this:

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/ArchitectNotes

It offers a good explanation of why trying to cache files in memory
(beyond what the OS already does) is usually counterproductive.

Cliff


--
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Thank you for your explanations.

Now, using proxy_cache_* am I able to cache only some pages?

Example:
site.com/
site.com/products/
site.com/products/cars/
site.com/products/cars/ferrari.php :)

How can I cache only "site.com/" and "site.com/products/"?

Thanks

N

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:47:03PM -0400, nfn wrote:

> Thank you for your explanations.
>
> Now, using proxy_cache_* am I able to cache only some pages?
>
> Example:
> site.com/
> site.com/products/
> site.com/products/cars/
> site.com/products/cars/ferrari.php :)
>
> How can I cache only "site.com/" and "site.com/products/"?

location / {
proxy_cache zone;
...
}

location /products/ {
proxy_cache zone;
...
}

location /products/cars/ {
proxy_cache off; # default
...
}


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Ok ..

Thanks Igor :)

So, If I have a "site.com/contact/" it will be cached since we have:

location / {
proxy_cache zone;
...
}

To avoid this I need to add:

location /contact/ {
proxy_cache off; # default
...
}

Is that it?

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:06:28PM -0400, nfn wrote:

> Ok ..
>
> Thanks Igor :)
>
> So, If I have a "site.com/contact/" it will be cached since we have:
>
> location / {
> proxy_cache zone;
> ...
> }
>
> To avoid this I need to add:
>
> location /contact/ {
> proxy_cache off; # default
> ...
> }
>
> Is that it?

If you set

location / {
proxy_cache zone;
...
}

location /contact/ {
...
}

then /contact wil not be cached.


--
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/

Thank you Igor,

Maybe a suggestion (I don't know nginx fully) ... have a regular expression implementation to cache functions.

Thanks

N

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 04:05:58PM -0400, nfn wrote:

> Thank you Igor,
>
> Maybe a suggestion (I don't know nginx fully) ... have a regular expression implementation to cache functions.

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#location


--
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/

Thank you Igor. I already know that.

I was think about something like this just to proxy_cache & fastcgi_cache:

location / {
proxy_cache zone;
...
proxy_cache_match ^~ /products/;
proxy_cache_match ^~ /catalog/;
...
}



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/30/2009 09:49AM by nfn.

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 09:48:01AM -0400, nfn wrote:

> Thank you Igor. I already know that.
>
> I was think about something like this just to proxy_cache & fastcgi_cache:
>
> location / {
> proxy_cache zone;
> ...
> proxy_match ^~ /products/;
> proxy_match ^~ /catalog/;
> ...
> }

I do not understand semantics of this.


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http://sysoev.ru/en/