Looks like there is a bug in the forum. 2 the same topics and the response ended up in the wrong thread, mixed up ;-)

Anyway, Thanks Igor for a quick response. Could you explain more why regex is not a good idea? I am asking about regex in the context of caching some of the requests on front-end proxy to speed up django app loading dynamic content where session is involved. Does it mean each of the filtered out requests we would like to cache, should duplicate the same location block?


server {
...

proxy_set_header Host myhost;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto- $scheme;

# catch only /appfoo* and /appbar*
location ~ /app(foo|bar)* {
proxy_pass http://ip;
proxy_redirect http://ip $scheme://$server_name;

proxy_cache $cache_zone_name;
proxy_cache_key "$request_uri";
...
proxy_cache_methods GET HEAD;
proxy_cache_bypass $cache_refresh;
proxy_no_cache $skip_cache;

proxy_ignore_headers "Set-Cookie" "Vary" "Expires";
proxy_hide_header Set-Cookie;
}
# everything else goes here
location / {
proxy_pass http://ip;
proxy_redirect http://ip $scheme://$server_name;
}

Thanks in advance for help.

O.