Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
NGINX Cookbook

You're reading from   NGINX Cookbook Over 70 recipes for real-world configuration, deployment, and performance

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786466174
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Concepts
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Tim Butler Tim Butler
Author Profile Icon Tim Butler
Tim Butler
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let's Get Started 2. Common PHP Scenarios FREE CHAPTER 3. Common Frameworks 4. All About SSLs 5. Logging 6. Rewrites 7. Reverse Proxy 8. Load Balancing 9. Advanced Features 10. Docker Containers 11. Performance Tuning 12. OpenResty 13. NGINX Plus – The Commercial Offering

Content caching with NGINX

In addition to simply proxying the data through, we can use NGINX to cache the proxied content. By doing this, we can reduce the amount of calls to your backend service, assuming that the calls are able to be cached.

Getting ready

As the caching is part of the standard NGINX platform, no additional prerequisites are required.

How to do it...

In order to enable the cache, first we need to define where to store the cached files. This needs to be set outside the server block directive and is best stored in the main nginx.conf file. Here's the...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime