On 12/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > i'm quite new to HTTPD and trying to figure out how to configure the apache > webserver as a reverse proxy with cache to a central intranet server. The > idea is to make the reverse proxy as a local site proxy to cache > applications launched through java webstart. > > I've been able to setup a httpd configuration acting as a reverse proxy. > However I can't seem to get the cache working. Well the cache works (disk > cache) in that it caches the central static files (images, jar files etc), > however when updating the central files (touching the last mod time), the > proxy server doesn't detect the change and updates it's cache.
How do you expect the proxy server to find out about the updated files? There is no built-in way to do this. You can trigger it yourself by making http requests to the proxy for the appropriate URLs with appropriate headers like Cache-control: max-age=0 Joshua.
