# Caching objects served from PHP **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [August 10, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching-objects-served-from-php/210539 "2011-08-10T16:29:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching-objects-served-from-php/210539/1 "2011-08-10T16:29:50Z")
I have a server set up with nginx and PHP-FPM, running a framework that essentially sends all requests for content to PHP, which then serves it based on ACL rules. This includes images and other static content. What I am trying to figure out is how I can get nginx to cache such objects to avoid the call to PHP for identical data, ie. a static image that hasn’t changed. Since all these calls are essentially dynamic, and often the image objects won’t have easily identifiable extensions, I’m not sure how I might go about caching them. I could put Varnish in front of nginx and have it do the caching but that would not allow caching of HTTPS traffic. Suggestions welcome! Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Caching objects served from PHP](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,213634,213634#msg-213634)** > > I have a server set up with nginx and PHP-FPM, running a framework that essentially sends all requests for content to PHP, which then serves it based on ACL rules. This includes images and other static content. What I am trying to figure out is how I... ---
**Author:** ![jwilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jwilson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jwilson)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/caching-objects-served-from-php/210539/2 "2011-08-10T19:40:35Z")
Check out fastcgi\_cache: [http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpFcgiModule#fastcgi\_cache](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpFcgiModule#fastcgi_cache) – Brian A.