On Aug 3, 1:34 pm, Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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_passhttp://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
Wow, I had not considered that. I will change the location of the
cached pages to public/cache and have nginx serve cached pages from
there. That way, Mongrel won't recognize that there are static files
for the requests. I will let you know if that works. Thanks philip!
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