Question

I have a website

http://www.somesite1.com which gets all its image content from http://www.somesite2.com

At the moment each time an image is to be displayed we simply use an absolute URL to get it like this

img src=”http://www.somesite2.com/event/image.jpg” /

So each time a user goes to http://www.somesite1.com for content http://www.somesite2.com gets hammered.
and the nginx is in front of IIS, so I want to cache the image on nginx…not always get from IIS.
Please tell me detail.
Thanks very much~

Answer 1

Maybe too late but you can do that with the proxy module of nginx.

There are plenty of solutions and you didn’t give enough details.

One solution is to have a proxy rule on (for example) /site2/ for the http://www.somesite1.com domain. These rule will forward request to http://www.somesite2.com.

And your absolute urls pointing to http://www.somesite1.com/site2/foo.png (for example).

Of course, depending of your url schemes, you can set something more elaborate and less visible (than this silly /site2/ rule).