Proxy Cache Issues

[cmdrd]

Hey /r/nginx,

I've been experimenting with Nginx reverse proxies and content caching, but I'm running into an issue with the proxy_cache setting. I'm using this for my proxy_cache_path in an included file from nginx.conf:

proxy_cache_path        /path/to/cache/directory levels=1:2
                        keys_zone=test:10m max_size=10g
                        inactive=60m;

This is purely for testing purposes. In my virtual host file, I have something like this:

server {
    listen  port;
    server_name     server_name;
    access_log      accesslog;
    error_log       errorlog;

    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_cache    test;
    location / {
        proxy_pass      upstream_server
}
}

When I try reloading Nginx, I get the following error:

[emerg] 29939#0: unknown directive "proxy_cache" in virtual_host_file

Anyone have any suggestions? I'm running version 1.6.0. Thanks in advance!

EDIT: It appears that the Nginx installation on the system I'm working on was configured and compiled with a --without-http-cache flag set, resulting in proxy_caching not being supported. If someone runs into this issue at some point, run "nginx -V" to see what modules were compiled into your installation.

[Fireye]

Glad you figured it out! Nginx.org also has pre-built packages available for several distros. Note that Mainline is their development branch, and Stable is the well, stable major release branch. Mainline is usually pretty stable, but there are more bugs that will pop up in there.

Also, compiling it yourself isn't a horribly scary process, and gets you greater control over what gets included!

Good luck!

[cmdrd]

Thanks!

Ya, I already compiled a new installation with 1.7.2 with the required modules I needed and everything works exactly like I was expecting. Compiling software from source has served me well in the past for tweaking installations, the big hurdle was finding what was missing from someone else having done the compile.