Nginx serving old files from cache

Server NGINX
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I have nginx set as reverse proxy for Apache and for serving static
files.
Everything works great, except in the last few weeks I noticed that
sometimes nginx returns page from cache which is 3-4 hours old. I
checked the timestamp of the cache file, and it is old.

This is part of the config file related to caching in nginx.conf:
proxy_cache off;
proxy_buffering on;
proxy_buffer_size 8k;
proxy_buffers 100 8k;
proxy_cache_path /var/www/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=my-cache:8m
max_size=1000m;
proxy_temp_path /var/www/cache/tmp;
proxy_cache_key “$host$request_uri”;
proxy_ignore_headers “Expires” “Cache-Control” “X-Accel-Expires”;

and this is for particulat vhost:
proxy_cache my-cache;
proxy_cache_valid 200 404 1m; # <----- should be valid
for just one minute!
proxy_ignore_headers Expires;
proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control;
proxy_ignore_headers X-Accel-Expires;
proxy_ignore_headers Set-Cookie;
proxy_hide_header Set-Cookie;

Any ideas?

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2

Do you have proxy_cache_use_stale set? Has any nginx process
segfaulted?

3

No segfaults and proxy_cache_use_stale wasn’t specified, so by default
it was off.

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