Nginx Proxy Cache – How to Fix Nginx Not Caching Data

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I have a REST API behind an nginx proxy. Proxying works fine, however I am unable to cache any responses. Any help would be much appreciated:

Nginx config:

worker_processes  10;
error_log  logs/error.log;
error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
error_log  logs/error.log  info;

pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
        proxy_cache_path /path/to/cache/dir keys_zone=one:60m;
        proxy_cache_methods GET HEAD POST;

     upstream backend {
        server server1 backup;
        server server2 weight=5;
    }
    access_log  logs/access.log;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       7076;
        server_name  localhost;
        #charset koi8-r;
        access_log  logs/host.access.log;

        location / {
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' *;
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Content-Type,Accept';
            add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';

            proxy_cache one;
            proxy_cache_key $host$uri$is_args$args;

            add_header X-Proxy-Cache $upstream_cache_status;

            proxy_ignore_headers X-Accel-Expires Expires Cache-Control Set-Cookie;
            proxy_ignore_headers Set-Cookie;
            proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control;

            proxy_hide_header Cache-Control;
            proxy_hide_header Set-Cookie;
            proxy_pass http://backend;
        }
    }
}

No matter what I have tried, the Proxy-Cache always comes back as a MISS:

Request Headers are:

Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:nginxserver:portnumber
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.124 Safari/537.36

Reponse Headers are: 

Access-Control-Allow-Credentials:true
Access-Control-Allow-Headers:Content-Type,Accept
Access-Control-Allow-Methods:GET, POST, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin:*
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Type:text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Date:Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:30:18 GMT
Server:nginx/1.7.4
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
X-Proxy-Cache:MISS

My suspicion is that it's something with the client headers, but even if I issue the call via curl and check out the headers, there is no response.

Thanks in advance

Best Answer

You didn't tell NGINX for how much time the response is valid and must be served from cache.

This must be specified with proxy_cache_valid directive.

proxy_cache one;
proxy_cache_key $host$uri$is_args$args;
proxy_cache_valid 200 10m;

But, this won't work for POST requests because you have no cache key that differs from a POST request to another on the same URL if they don't have same content.

So you will need to adjust the cache key to $host$request_uri|$request_body. You will have to monitor the cache size (proxy_cache_path parameter max_size) and proxy response buffer proxy_buffer_size so it suits your needs.

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