I am trying to properly configure nginx to cache a site and appear to be having problems with the name of my cookie...

location ~ .php$ {
......
fastcgi_cache php;
fastcgi_cache_key $request_uri$http_cookie;
........
}

The above works but is unique for every single page visitor....

location ~ .php$ {
......
fastcgi_cache php;
fastcgi_cache_key $request_uri$cookie_CakeCookie[User][id];
........
}

CakeCookie[User][id] is the name of the cookie the script i am using sets.

When i do the above it seems to ignore the cookie component completely and servers everyone the same page...

Questions:

1) is the above the proper way to do key? $cookie_CakeCookie[User][id]
2) is this a bug in nginx not taking the [ ] in the cookie name?
3) is [ ] in the cookie name not standard?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!
Chris

Are you using google analytics? Check your cookies on each page load to see that they are the same.

$http_cookie$request_method$host$request_uri

is what I use. You can also try installing the echo module to try and debug the cookie output.