I'm developing a public web site on top of a CMS product running in
Apache Tomcat. The site will have a caching Apache httpd 2.2 reverse
proxy in front of Tomcat.
Since my experience with caching Apache reverse proxy setups is limited
I'd appreciate any feedback on the current setup plan.
Page content will be cached with Apache using mod_cache and
mod_disk_cache. Certain parts of the URL space contain non-cacheable
content.
Page content should be cached for 5 minutes and images for 1 hour.
Several pages contain paged lists of data (e.g. news items). Paging
state is passed in HTTP request parameters and also paged content should
be cached. The backend system doesn't set any HTTP cache related headers
such as the Expires header when a page is served.
For usage statistics gathering purposes page content should not be
cacheable neither in the browser nor in any intermediate forward
proxies, if possible.
Below is the configuration file draft I've come up with.
Does the setup fulfill the requirements above?
Any other comments?
As far as I've understood the below setup would not correctly cache
request content when using request parameters (requires Expires header).
What would be the best way to fix this?
How will the Cache-Control and Expires (ExpiresByType) work together?
Is it possible to have the cache asynchronously update cached content so
that the last request would be served with expired content but behind
the scenes the cache would update the content once expired content is
requested?
<VirtualHost 10.0.0.1:80>
ProxyPass / ajp://127.0.0.1:8009/
# cache content by default for 5 minutes
<Location />
Deny from all
Header set Cache-Control s-maxage=300
</Location>
# allow access to certain subspaces only
<Location /mysite/>
Allow from all
</Location>
CacheRoot /opt/mysite/httpd/cache
CacheEnable disk /
# disable caching for certain parts of the URL space
CacheDisable /comment/
<Location /mysite/comment/>
Header set Cache-Control no-cache
</Location>
CacheIgnoreNoLastMod On
CacheIgnoreHeaders Cookie
# cache images for one hour, browser caching allowed
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/gif "now plus 1 hours"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 hours"
ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 hours"
ExpiresByType text/css "now plus 1 hours"
</VirtualHost>
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