Cache Zend Framework homepage on nginx - caching

Question

I have zend framework 1.12 based site working with nginx
I installed wnmp on windows 7 professional to test Windows, nginx, mariadb, php7
I want to cache home page which is localhost or localhost/
which internally calls index.php using index.php
similarly urls http://localhost/conference/sessions/date/2015-04/12/page/1 conference - controller sessions - action request params date, and page with respective values
I want to cache home page but I have looked but nothing specific is available
Here is my nginx.conf that works without caching
here is what I have in my nginx.conf
worker_processes 1;
error_log logs/error.log;
pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
# Max value 16384
worker_connections 8192;
# Accept multiple connections
multi_accept on;
}
# Settings that affect all server blocks
http {
include php_processes.conf;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log logs/access.log;
fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1 SSLv3;
ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!ADH:!AECDH:!MD5:!DSS;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
gzip on;
# http server
# Begin HTTP Server
server {
listen 80; # IPv4
server_name localhost;
## Parametrization using hostname of access and log filenames.
access_log logs/localhost_access.log;
error_log logs/localhost_error.log;
## Root and index files.
root html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
## If no favicon exists return a 204 (no content error).
location = /favicon.ico {
try_files $uri =204;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
## Don't log robots.txt requests.
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
## Try the requested URI as files before handling it to PHP.
location / {
## Regular PHP processing.
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass php_processes;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
## Static files
location ~* \.(?:css|gif|htc|ico|js|jpe?g|png|swf)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
## fell swoop.
tcp_nodelay off;
## Set the OS file cache.
open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=120s;
open_file_cache_valid 45s;
open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
open_file_cache_errors off;
}
## Keep a tab on the 'big' static files.
location ~* ^.+\.(?:ogg|pdf|pptx?)$ {
expires 30d;
## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
## fell swoop.
tcp_nodelay off;
}
try_files $uri $uri/ #missing;
} # / location
location #missing {
rewrite (.*) /index.php;
}
}
Please help.

Answer 1

Added Under http
note - add two underscores (__) if you cookie starts with and underscore (_)
fastcgi_cache_path /home/k47/cache/nginx levels=1:2 keys_zone=MYHOMEPAGE:100m inactive=60m;
fastcgi_cache_key "$scheme$request_method$host$request_method$query_string$request_uri$cookie_one$cookie_two$cookie__ga$cookie__gat";
fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500;
fastcgi_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires Set-Cookie;
fastcgi_cache_valid 200 302 1m;
Under server set a flag/variable which can be used to determine if we need caching or not
I have used other urls to cache and not cache with similar regex
set $no_cache 1;
if ($request_uri ~* "^/$")
{
set $no_cache 0;
}
then finally under location {} I start with
fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache;
fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache;
fastcgi_cache MYHOMEPAGE;
fastcgi_cache_valid 200 1m;
add_header X-Proxy-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
add_header cache-control 'public, max-age=500';