WordPress protected pages and NGINX Caching

SPDTeam

• November 27, 2023 05:46

Hi all I'm running a Apache server along with NGINX with Reverse Proxy for caching purposes. The server mainly hosts WordPress sites. A site owner has noticed users can access pages which are password protected via the basic page visibility feature (ref: How to Password Protect a WordPress Page to Limit Content Visibility). Disabling NGINX for the site resolves the issue. While NGINX caching can be controlled per page/url via HTACCESS rules, this is on a per site basis. Is there any way to configure the server to always exclude caching these types of pages across the board? Is there any other best practice config for this type of setup?

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  SPDTeam

  • November 29, 2023 14:24

  The change to the new cPanel Forums has cleared out some of the original replies.

  NGINX was installed following the standard WHM instructions found at https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/web-services/nginx-with-reverse-proxy/.

  From what I understand WordPress sets a cookie when a page is password protected.

  In theory I would be able to add a map directive for NGINX to bypass the cache it this is found. However the WHM guide states that the nginx.conf should not be edited. 

  Is there another way to achieve the same result?

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  SPDTeam

  • December 21, 2023 10:28
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  Anyone had the same challenge?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • December 21, 2023 15:43

  I feel like a vaguely remember this coming up recently - didn't we decide that a ticket was the best plan of action so we could reproduce the issue on our end?

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  Porolifle Fuller

  • August 23, 2024 21:45

  Hi cPRex we are encountering this same issue! Was there a solution cooked up or would we be best to open a ticket as well? It seems there's probably a conf or module we could deploy rather than treating this as a bug but we're just unclear which direction to go. Thanks for any advice!

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • August 23, 2024 21:47

  I don't see that the OP opened a ticket, or if they did it wasn't mentioned here, so if you can reproduce this issue it would likely be best to create a ticket on this as well to see if you can get some answers.

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