Squid proxy not caching anything

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Oh, crap, I figured it out.

Squid ignores cache headers less than OR EQUAL TO one minute. So max-age=60 is ignored, but max-age=61 works like a charm.

<?php
Header('Cache-Control: max-age=61');

?><html>hi</html>

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Dan Fabulich

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Dan Fabulich over 1 year

squid.conf:

http_access allow all

# Squid normally listens to port 3128
http_port 3128 accel defaultsite=localhost no-vhost

cache_peer localhost parent 80 0 no-query originserver name=myAccel
cache_peer_access myAccel allow all

# Uncomment and adjust the following to add a disk cache directory.
cache_dir ufs /usr/local/var/cache/squid 100 16 256

# Leave coredumps in the first cache dir
coredump_dir /usr/local/var/cache/squid

Squid 3.2.9, installed on OSX via Homebrew

localhost: ~ $ squid -v
Squid Cache: Version 3.2.9
configure options:  '--disable-debug' '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/squid/3.2.9' '--localstatedir=/usr/local/var' 'CC=cc' 'CXX=c++' 'PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/pkgconfig'

Started squid with squid -f squid.conf -d 2 -N

The upstream is returning valid Cache-Control headers, which I've verified are correct by visiting the page in Google Chrome 26 and watching in Chrome Dev Tools.

localhost: ~ $ curl -s -o /dev/null --dump-header /dev/stdout  http://localhost/test.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:29:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.15
Cache-Control: max-age=60, public
Content-Length: 16
Content-Type: text/html
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

But when I query the page via the Squid reverse proxy, I always get a cache miss.

localhost: ~ $ curl -s -o /dev/null --dump-header /dev/stdout  http://localhost:3128/test.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:29:34 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.15
Cache-Control: max-age=60, public
Content-Length: 16
Content-Type: text/html
X-Cache: MISS from localhost
Via: 1.1 localhost (squid/3.2.9)
Connection: keep-alive

localhost: ~ $ curl -s -o /dev/null --dump-header /dev/stdout  http://localhost:3128/test.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:29:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8r
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.15
Cache-Control: max-age=60, public
Content-Length: 16
Content-Type: text/html
X-Cache: MISS from localhost
Via: 1.1 localhost (squid/3.2.9)
Connection: keep-alive

What's wrong with my configuration?

James O'Gorman about 11 years

The cache-control header sets max-age to 60, which is the same as squid's default minimum_expiry_time - try tweaking this value in squid.

James O'Gorman about 11 years

Or you can tweak maximum_expiry_time in squid - which is recommended for this type of environment. :-)
Dan Fabulich about 11 years

minimum_expiry_time, yes. (You got it right in the comment to the question.)