This looks closer to my setup with Apache mod_php, the idea being that Apache is essentially a wrapper for php and only called when needed. I would rather do this than have yet another link in the chain to fcgi etc.

I am using Nginx Proxy Cache Purge from https://wpselect.com/blog/wordpress-nginx-proxy-cache/ which purges the cache when you publish, update or comment and the plugin is quite a bit more complex. It needs nginx to be compiled with ngx_cache_purge.

Does your approach of modifying the X-Accel-Expires to zero do the same thing?

BTW as I run sites under group www-data, by putting the plugin into mu-plugins and setting ownership to nobody and ensuring no world read, the plugin cannot be seen let alone deactivated by any site admins!

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I keep seeing posts about proxies and caching but since Nginx can do this all on it’s own, I still don’t understand why people don’t just use Nginx instead of Nginx and Apache..

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It seems like the plugin could be replaced by Nginx directives proxy_cache_bypass (which prevents a request being looked up from the cache if certain headers are set), and proxy_no_cache (which prevents a request from being stored in the cache if certain headers are set).

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I am running a WordPress installation or two behind CloudFlare’s CDM and SaaS security system which is front-ended by a VERY powerful distributed Nginx Cloud.

How can I use your plugin to be able to take advantage of SPDY, Railgun, IPV6 and all the other goodies on their Nginx created cache, rather than creating one of my own secondary cache?

I tried adding your .htaccess snippet to my .htaccess script but I just get an error 500.

Terence.

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It is not quite clear to me where a lot of the instructions are to be placed. I have successfully set up nginx as a front end proxy but where do I add all your directives?
I host multiple vhosts, have multiple vhost files and am unsure where to put all these directives.
I can put them into the server or into the location blocs, and I have multiple location blocs, one for static content that gets served by nginx and one for dynamic content that gets proxied through to apache2.
so where do I add these caching directives?
I can give you my nginx config files if needed…

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