Slowly proceding on our Cherokee + Varnish + Coldfusion + Railo setup. Stuck on perfecting the working regular expression needed to complete things. I have a semi working regular expression, that allows me to request a .cfm file - but it fails to work when anything comes after the .cfm. So begging of the collective intelligence here to dig the regex out of their mind or experience. :) Fairly sure same regular expression is/will be needed by others.
Simply this - need a regular expression to detect when we have a Coldfusion file in a URL: .cfm I have a big URL like this- (see the .cfm in there :) ? ): http://images.pubcrawler.com/dsp_test_img.cfm?file=687474703A2F2F6661726D342E737 This regular expression is for Virtual Server in Cherokee. When Cherokee detects .cfm in URL it's processing I want it to fire off via reverse proxy to another application server. At this point a request is nested so need a regex to get this working: INET -> Cherokee port 80 -> Varnish port 81 -> Cherokee port 82 -> regex .cfm point to 127.0.0.1:8080 (Railo app server) The reason for the nesting if you are interested :) is simple. images.pubcrawler.com is behind Cherokee and Varnish is behind there. The files are all cacheable static images, css, etc. We have some elements that are per se static but are remote files we end up grabbing over and over daily and we have no control of when remote partner servers go offline. So I've wrote up a simple set of code that encodes URL values and spits out nice number letter strings as URLs. Additionally, it fires off to get the binary data. After it does that once Varnish will be holding it for our defined amount of time so no more duplicative requests during peak times. A request currently for such a defined file might be something like: <img src="http://www.cherokee-project.com/static/indiankid.png";> Now when this is done (yep long URL, but it's cheap and fast and portable/reliable URL value) <img src="http://images.pubcrawler.com/dsp_img.cfm?file=687474703A2F2F7777772E636865726F6B65652D70726F6A6563742E636F6D2F7374617469632F696E6469616E6B69642E706E67 "> Thanks to everyone who takes time to read this. Open to the regex or any other workaround suggestions. Everyone should look into using Varnish if you have a good amount of static content or just as another cache layer to speed things up. 90.81% hit rate for us currently. _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
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