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The node cache validity configuration is updated with an advanced mode, supporting more refined configurations. For more information, see Node Caching Rule Configuration.

Configuration

The resource cache in Tencent Cloud CDN is triggered by requests. If the CDN node receiving the user request has not cached the requested resource, it will forward the request to the origin server to pull the resource. After the resource is successfully pulled by the node (with a 2XX status code returned), it will be cached on the node and returned to the user.

You cannot directly manage resources cached on CDN nodes. If you are worried that resources on the origin server change but CDN nodes still cache the legacy resources and return them to users, you can configure node cache rules.

Each cached resource on a CDN node has validity. If the requested cached resource has expired, it will be considered invalid even if the resource is still cached on the node. The node will pull the resource from the origin server again. The node cache rule allows you to configure the cache validity period for resources in a specific type, directory, and path. You can configure these items based on your actual business scenarios.

Note：

Currently, a file up to 32 GB can be cached, otherwise, the resources will be pulled from the origin server.

Directions

Viewing the configuration

Log in to the CDN Console, select Domain Management on the left sidebar, click Manage on the right of a domain name to enter its configuration page, and switch to the Cache Configuration tab to find the Node Cache Validity Configuration section.

Adding rules

CDN currently supports configuring node cache validity rules in the following four types:

• File: the cache validity period can be configured by the entered file extension. Different file extensions should be separated with ;, i.e., jpg;css.
• Folder: the cache validity period can be configured by the entered directory path in the format of /test and does not need to end with /. Different directories should be separated with ;.
• Full-path file: the cache validity period can be configured by the entered full file path in the format of /index.html. The full file path and file type can be combined for matching, such as /test/*.jpg.
• Homepage: the cache validity period can be configured by the root directory.

Configuration limitations:

• A maximum of 100 caching rules can be added for a single domain name.
• You can adjust the priority for multiple rules. Rules at the bottom of the list have higher priority.
• In each rule of specified file type, folder, and full-path file, up to 100 groups of contents can be entered. Please use ";" to separate different contents, e.g., "Specified file type - jpg;png".
• The cache validity can be set as up to 365 days.

Note：

If Advanced Mode is selected for a rule, the rule will be upgraded comprehensively as the advanced mode once it is submitted and can no longer be restored to the basic mode. For more information, see Node Caching Rule Configuration.

Advanced cache validity configuration

After it is enabled, CDN will compare the cache validity of the matched cache rule with the origin server's "max-age" value, and then adopt the smaller value as the cache validity.

• If the Max-Age configured for /index.html of the origin server is 200 seconds, and the cache validity configured for CDN is 600 seconds, then the actual cache validity of the file will be 200 seconds.
• If the Max-Age configured for /index.html of the origin server is 800 seconds, and the cache validity configured for CDN is 600 seconds, then the actual cache validity of the file will be 600 seconds.

Note：

After it is enabled, if the origin server does not return the Last-Modified field, CDN will add it by default and change its value once every 10 minutes.

Follow origin server

After it is enabled, if a request does not match any cache rules, the origin server will be followed.

Note：

The follow origin server switch and the advanced cache validity configuration switch cannot be enabled at the same time.

Default policies

If no feature is enabled, no rule is configured or matches requests, the default policies will be applied:

• When a user makes a request for a certain business resource, if the HTTP response header of the origin server contains the field Cache-Control, the Cache-Control will be followed.
• If the HTTP response header of the origin server does not contain the field Cache-Control, then the resource cache validity on nodes will be 600 seconds.

Configuration Samples

The node cache validity configurations for the acceleration domain name cloud.tencent.com are as follows:

The actual cache validity will be as follows:

1. 400 seconds for the /test/def.jpg file.
2. 5 minutes for the /test/1.png file.
3. 30 days for other files.