Hello, this is my first time posting to the users list and looking for
some help with an issue. We have a production deployment of httpd where
we are using mod_disk_cache and mod_proxy_balancer to cache images
served from our load balanced backend tomcat servers. We have setup a 15
days expiry for the cached images. The setup works flawlessly except
that it is unnecessarily caching "404 Not Found" responses as well. This
causes issues when a image URL is accessed before the actual image is
published at the backed servers, since the resultant "404 Not Found"
response is already cached by the mod_disk_cache and it either has to be
manually refreshed or wait for the expiry period to pass before the
actual image is visible.
Needless to say this causes lots of issues as we have millions of images
served per day. Also this is against the apache caching policy as
outlined at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/caching.html which states
that "2. The response must have a HTTP status code of 200, 203, 300, 301
or 410." The code pertaining to load balancing and caching configuration
is pasted below. Any help in this regard from any user will be highly
appreciated.
<VirtualHost *:8080>
## Apache Load Balancing configuration
<Proxy balancer://image-origin/>
BalancerMember http://oc1.etilize.com
BalancerMember http://oc3.etilize.com
ProxySet lbmethod=bybusyness
Order allow,deny
Allow from env=allow_request
Deny from env=crawler
allow from all
#Expiry settings
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 15 days"
</Proxy>
ProxyPass / balancer://image-origin/
ProxyPassReverse / balancer://image-origin/
## Apache Caching Configuration
<IfModule mod_cache.c>
<IfModule mod_disk_cache.c>
CacheEnable disk /
CacheRoot "/ebs/cache"
CacheDirLength 1
CacheDirLevels 2
CacheMaxFileSize 5000000
</IfModule>
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>
Regards
Asif Mushtaq
Sr. System Administrator
Etilize Pvt. Ltd.
www.etilize.com
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