> Just to make sure: are you requesting purges from
> localhost (127.0.0.1)?

No, why would I, nginx is listening to external IP.

> At this time it only logs successful purges at
> http debug level and failures
> to delete files from hard disk at critical level.

how do I see this log? it will give me a clue into what the proxy_cache_purge is doing

>
> > It seems that I keep getting
> upstream_cache_status UPDATING
> > Does that mean the purging is scheduled somehow?
>
> No, this has nothing to do with ngx_cache_purge.
>

correct.

Thank you.