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Tim
Asked: 2012-06-01 18:21:53 +0800 CST

Nginx, memcached and cakephp: memcached module always misses cache

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I've got a simple nginx configuration;

server{
  servername localhost;
  root /var/www/webroot;

  location / {
    set_md5  $memcached_key $uri;
    index  index.php index.html;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @cache;
  }

  location @cache  {
    memcached_pass localhost:11211;
    default_type text/html;
    error_page 404  @fallback;
  }

  location @fallback{
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?url=$uri&$args;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_param MEM_KEY $memcached_key;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
  }
}

I've got a CakePHP helper that saves the view into memcached using the MEM_KEY parameter. I have tested it and it's working, however, nginx is always going to the @fallback direction. How can I go about troubleshooting this behavior? Would could the problem be?

cache nginx memcache cakephp

1 Answers

  1. Thanks to the comment of DukeLion i could finally found out what whas happening, nginx is doing the get to the memcached server okey, but cakephp is inflecting the key.

    Example, i try accesing to /home_page.html

    Nginx do a get to the memcache with /home_page.html , dont find it so it loads cakephp, cakephp generate the view and save it in the key _home__page_html

    The solution for this was extending the memcached cakephp engine.

    Thanks!!!

    pd: you can a sample of the memcached view engine in http://andy-gale.com/cakephp-view-memcache.html

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