Nginx Cache Server

This is a simple Nginx cache server that caches the responses from the backend server. It just uses the Nginx docker image and some Environment variables to configure it. You can configure it via the .env file.

Pre-requisites

• Docker

How to run

1. Clone the repository
2. Run cp .env.example .env
3. Edit the .env file
4. Run docker compose up -d

How to configure

You can configure the cache server via the .env file.

Traefik

These are helpful if you are using Traefik as a reverse proxy. But if not you can just ignore these. If you want to use traefik use docker compose -f traefik.docker-compose.yml up -d to start the container.

• TRAEFIK_CERT_RESOLVER The name of the cert resolver
• TRAEFIK_ENTRYPOINT The entrypoint of Traefik
• TRAEFIK_NETWORK The network of Traefik
• TRAEFIK_ROUTER The router of Traefik

Nginx

• UPSTREAM_DOMAIN The domain of the upstream server
• UPSTREAM_PORT The port of the upstream server
• UPSTREAM_HOST_HEADER The host header of the upstream server, usually the same as the domain, but in some cases, it can be different
• UPSTREAM_PROTOCOL The protocol of the upstream server
• MAX_CACHE_SIZE The maximum size of the cache
• CACHE_DURATION The duration of the cache
• IN_RAM_SIZE The size of the in-ram cache