Proxy – How to Tell if a Port is an HTTP Proxy

I don't think that there is a way to explicitly invalidate cached items, but here is an example of how to do the rest. Update: As mentioned by Piotr in another answer, there is a cache purge module that you can use. You can also force a refresh of a cached item using nginx's proxy_cache_bypass - see Cherian's answer for more information.

In this configuration, items that aren't cached will be retrieved from example.net and stored. The cached versions will be served up to future clients until they are no longer valid (60 minutes).

Your Cache-Control and Expires HTTP headers will be honored, so if you want to explicitly set an expiration date, you can do that by setting the correct headers in whatever you are proxying to.

There are lots of parameters that you can tune - see the nginx Proxy module documentation for more information about all of this including details on the meaning of the different settings/parameters: http://nginx.org/r/proxy_cache_path

http {
  proxy_cache_path  /var/www/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=my-cache:8m max_size=1000m inactive=600m;
  proxy_temp_path /var/www/cache/tmp; 


  server {
    location / {
      proxy_pass http://example.net;
      proxy_cache my-cache;
      proxy_cache_valid  200 302  60m;
      proxy_cache_valid  404      1m;
    }
  }
}

I think a bit of a diagram may be in order here. You say that you've already setup an SSH over HTTP tunnel through the proxy server. Assuming you're running something on the remote server computer to handle terminating that SSH over HTTP tunnel you should be in business.

It sounds like you don't really have an SSH over HTTP proxy, if you're still trying to source connections out to the remote server, destination port 22.

Dag Wieers (of RPM repository fame) has written a HOWTO for tunneling SSH over HTTP(S). If your remote server is running Apache you should be able to pull off that configuration on your remote server.

I'm talking about doing this:

(source: wellbury.com)