Using nginx to serve content directly out of a redis cache

Question

I am using nginx to pass requests to a Node app. The app basically acts as a remote cache for html (checks to see if what the user is requesting is in the redis db, if it is

Answer 1

Maybe something more difficult to setup than Webdis but you can do that directly in the nginx daemon with some extra modules like redis2-nginx-module. You will have to recompile nginx.

There is some good examples of configuration on the home page.

For instance :

# GET /get?key=some_key
location /get {
    set_unescape_uri $key $arg_key;  # this requires ngx_set_misc
    redis2_query get $key;
    redis2_pass foo.com:6379;
}

Of course, with a little more nginx configuration, you can get another URL pattern.

Note that for this example, you will have to compile ngx_set_misc module too.