Boost on homepage

[halcyonCorsair]

Homepage: eg.
site.com/home will get boosted
site.com won't get boosted

I believe it is because of the internal redirect caused by:
index index.php;
and
locations = /index.php
getting matched before anything, so the cache never gets checked.

I can't think of a good workaround for this however...

[perusio]

Hmm, I'm going to have a look on that. I haven't tried it, but it seems to make sense. Let me see. Untested. Try adding:

map $request_uri $is_index {
    default 0;
    /index.php 1;
    / 1;
}

in nginx.conf and then at the / location use:

error_page 418 =200 @cache;

if ($is_index) {
    return 418;
}

Let me know how it went. I'm a little pressed for time with a project deadline right now. After monday I'll address this issue more carefully.

Thanks,
António

[perusio]

Ah yes. Comment out this part of the config to try the above workaround:

location = / {
    error_page 404 =200 /index.html;
}

[halcyonCorsair]

Thanks for that. We used a slightly different workaround for a bit before ripping out boost completely in favour of Varnish.