> I am using page caching on a rails site and I want a logged-in admin
> to be served the non-cached site. This needs to be done in our nginx
> config but I haven't been able to get anything to work.
>
> My first (and most logical) attempt was to set a cookie for admins and
> have a <p>conditional statement in the nginx config that checks for
> that cookie. If it finds it, it should go directly to the proxy_pass.
> Here is what that looked like:
>
> <pre>
> if ($http_cookie ~* "nocached=true") {
> proxy_pass http://mongrel;
> break;
> }
> </pre>
>
> This did not work. If I put a rewrite line in that conditional
> statement, it works. That means it is recognizing the cookie
> correctly and that there is a problem with my approach. I think I
> might need to use different syntax to use only the mongrels and not
> load the cached pages but I don't know what that would look like. If
> you have tried something like this, I'd love to hear what you found.
> Thanks!
It might be working... mongrel will serve up files cached into public as
well. So the above might very well be handing it to mongrel, mongrel sees
the cached file and serves it up on it's own.
-philip
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