# Nginx and Memcache **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [October 22, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917 "2010-10-22T15:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/77aa72/32.png) [@Dobai-Pataky\_BSSSSl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Dobai-Pataky_BSSSSl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/1 "2010-10-22T15:40:55Z")
Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string content from memcache. The current output from Nginx is of type application/octet-stream. Is there something I missed? Thank you. Regards Anil Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Nginx and Memcache](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,143497,143497#msg-143497)** > > Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string... ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/2 "2010-10-22T17:55:49Z")
Hello! On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:39:03AM -0400, midas wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate > with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache > serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to > figure out how to get the string content from memcache. The current > output from Nginx is of type application/octet-stream. Is there > something I missed? As memcached values doesn’t store/return any content type - nginx only able to detect it based on request uri extension (i.e. the same logic as for static files applies). See details here: > **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)** > > ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com > **[GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki...](https://github.com/nginxinc/nginx-wiki)** > > ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com E.g to make sure all replies from memcached are returned as text/plain do something like this: ``` location /memcached/ { types {} default_type text/plain; memcached_pass ... } ``` Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/3 "2010-10-22T21:26:11Z")
Thanks Maxim My problem is that the value coming from memcache is a php serialized string content (byte-stream). I was able to change the content send from nginx with your suggestion. But I still get errors since the response contains invalid characters. BTW is there a way to cache response from memcache in Nginx so that the server does not have to keep going to memcache for data? Regards Anil Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Nginx and Memcache](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,143497,143619#msg-143619)** > > Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string... ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/4 "2010-10-22T22:18:30Z")
Hello! On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:24:56PM -0400, midas wrote: > My problem is that the value coming from memcache is a php serialized > string content (byte-stream). I was able to change the content send from > nginx with your suggestion. But I still get errors since the response > contains invalid characters. You should put non-serialized data into memcached. > BTW is there a way to cache response from memcache in Nginx so that the > server does not have to keep going to memcache for data? No. It’s presumed that memcached is fast enough to not require additional caching. Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/5 "2010-10-22T23:06:24Z")
Thanks Maxim, This helped a lot. I was able to dig into the code and remove serialization. Was thinking about file caching in Nginx. Is there a way to configure file caching? I apologize for all the questions. Kinda new to Nginx. I need the server to respond to a very high amount of traffic. Regards Anil Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Nginx and Memcache](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,143497,143644#msg-143644)** > > Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string... ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/6 "2010-10-26T17:40:05Z")
Hi, I finally have Nginx working with memcache and doing its job perfectly. I have a question regarding the memcache\_pass configuration. Is it possible to have a pool of memcache servers instead of one memcache server? Regards Anil Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Nginx and Memcache](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,143497,144691#msg-144691)** > > Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string... ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/7 "2010-10-26T19:16:52Z")
Hello! On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:38:41AM -0400, midas wrote: > Hi, > > I finally have Nginx working with memcache and doing its job perfectly. > I have a question regarding the memcache\_pass configuration. Is it > possible to have a pool of memcache servers instead of one memcache > server? You are free to use defined upstream[1] in memcached\_pass. By default nginx will use round-robin though. Blancing methods compatible with Cache::Memcached and other memcached client libraries are available as third party modules[2][3]. [1] [http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamModule](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamModule) [2] [http://openhack.ru/nginx-patched/wiki/MemcachedHash](http://openhack.ru/nginx-patched/wiki/MemcachedHash) [3] [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUpstreamConsistentHash) Maxim D. ---
**Author:** ![midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@midas](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/midas)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-and-memcache/197917/8 "2010-10-26T19:35:41Z")
Awesome! I had read about the upstream module. I was not sure if it could be used along with memcache\_pass. Thanks Maxim. On another topic altogether, is there an APC module for Nginx? Regards Anil Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Re: Nginx and Memcache](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,143497,144725#msg-144725)** > > Hi, I have recently installed Nginx as a front facing server to communicate with memcache. My problem is that the PHP code that writes into memcache serializes the contents. I cannot turn off serialization but need to figure out how to get the string...