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I am trying to learn caching using nginx to cache my NEXT APIs. This is my nginx.config

worker_processes 1;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    proxy_cache_path /tmp/nginx/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=portfolio:10m max_size=1g inactive=60m use_temp_path=off;

    server {
        listen 2300;
        server_name localhost;

        # Default route - no caching
        location / {
            proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        }
        
        # API routes with caching
        location /api/ {
            proxy_pass http://localhost:3000/api/;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
            
            # Cache configuration
            proxy_cache portfolio;
            proxy_cache_methods GET HEAD;
            proxy_cache_key "$request_uri"; 
            proxy_cache_valid any 10m;  
            proxy_cache_lock on; 
            proxy_cache_lock_age 10s; 
            proxy_cache_lock_timeout 3s;
            add_header X-Cache-Status $upstream_cache_status;
            add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=600";
        }
    }
}

It's caching properly and if i use curl the x-cache-status properly shows HIT after the first request but in browser although caching is working, that I can understand from the the response time and also no API call in NEXT app, the x-cache-status always shows MISS. Sometimes for some APIs it shows HIT but not consistent. How to solve it?

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  • Can you try curl with below headers. curl -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" -H "Pragma: no-cache" -H "User-Agent: Mozilla" localhost:2300/api/your-endpoint if its behaving same as browser then add below to config and try. Set proxy_ignore_headers to ignore Cache-Control and Pragma Commented Apr 13 at 15:37
  • @Vijay i tried with those Headers and with curl it returns HIT but in browser it always shows MISS , I am using Chrome browser Commented Apr 13 at 15:56
  • in addition to the above, can you try adding the below too. proxy_hide_header Vary; Commented Apr 13 at 23:34
  • still same after adding proxy_ignore_headers Cache-Control and proxy_hide_header Vary , trying to write Pragma in proxy_ignore_headers is giving invalid value error so i skipped that Commented Apr 14 at 12:08
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