Nginx + memcached_pass but nothing caching?

Server NGINX
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Hi!

I’m trying to use Nginx as a proxy to cache static files off the backend
servers. I got nginx and memcached up and running on Fedora core, and I
can configure it so that it serves the right files. However, I can’t
find any evidence that it is caching anything. I’ve tried setting
various http headers on the files going through the proxy
(Cache-control: max-age=600,public)

The configuration looks like this which is totally vanilla:
server {
location / {
set $memcached_key $uri;
memcached_pass name:11211;
default_type text/html;
error_page 404 = /fallback;
}

location = /fallback {
    proxy_pass       backend;
}

}

“backend” is a LAMP server sitting on a different machine and responding
on port 80. If I look at memcached stats, nothing is going into the
cache but looks of lookups are happening.

Am I missing a step where I put results from proxy_pass into the cache?
What is preventing nginx from putting anything into cache?

Thanks so much for your help!

Cheers,
Mitchua

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On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Mitchua M. [email protected]
wrote:

server {
}

“backend” is a LAMP server sitting on a different machine and responding
on port 80. If I look at memcached stats, nothing is going into the
cache but looks of lookups are happening.

Am I missing a step where I put results from proxy_pass into the cache?
What is preventing nginx from putting anything into cache?

Thanks so much for your help!

I dont think nginx itself will put anything into cache. Its the
responsibility of upstream servers to do that, I believe.

Regards
Rajeev J Sebastian