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Full-Page Cache with Apache

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Full-Page Cache with Apache

If you have a simple Page on a slow Server with Apache you can use the Full Page Caching for deliver the most pages directly from Apache (without passenger).

Activate "Cache Pages Full"

Inside config/initializers/refinery/pages.rb, find the line that reads:

config.cache_pages_full = false

Set it to true, and uncomment the line:

config.cache_pages_full = true

Then restart your server.

From then on, every page you request from Refinery CMS will be saved at public/refinery/cache/pages. For example, after you request http://your-website/about, you will find a file named public/refinery/cache/pages/about.html inside your application folder.

Redirect

Now we have to redirect Apache to these generated files.

Add the following to your apache config or create an .htaccess file in your project root:

RewriteEngine On

# Rewrite home to check for static
RewriteRule ^$ home

# Checks cache directory for already cached pages
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/[a-zA-Z0-9\-/]*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/refinery/cache/pages%{REQUEST_URI}.html -f
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ refinery/cache/pages/%{REQUEST_URI}.html [L]

# By default, Rails appends asset timestamps to all asset paths. This allows
# you to set a cache-expiration date for the asset far into the future
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 year"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 year"

# compress static text files
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/javascript text/css application/javascript

Now pages are delivered by Apache without touching Passenger.

Page caching with Rails 4

The built-in page caching has been extracted to a separate gem in Rails 4. You need to add the gem actionpack-page_caching to your Gemfile if you're using Rails 4+.