is the cache enabled by default if the configure does not disable it
out or in nginx.conf something is marked as "off" ?

i would assume it's not active unless you set the parameters for the
cache you want.

2009/6/16 Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:38:17PM +0800, XUFENG wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> What does --without-http-cache option mean when compiling Nginx?
>> Is it related with proxy_store directive or some other things?
>> I could not find any explicit docs about this.
>> Thank you in advance.
>
> This option is related to proxy_cache... and fastcgi_cache_... directives.
> Since the cache requires md5 functions, that may not exist on a host,
> there is the option to disable the cache building.
>
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> Igor Sysoev
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