Cache settings - General

The General tab of the Cache settings configuration allows you to set the default settings for how the cache should serve files, and the order that volumes (configured to be used by the cache) should be used.

Enable HTTP Cache

This option is checked by default. Unchecking this option will disable the HTTP Cache.

Read more about disabling the HTTP Cache

Default settings

These are the default settings for how the cache will serve files. The default options here can be overridden on a request by request basis using the HTTP Cache control policy item. The HTTP Cache control policy item is registered with the WinGate Policy system by the HTTP Cache module.

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Volume order

Here you can specify the order in which volumes will be filled.

Read more about HTTP Cache volumes

Temporary files location

NOTE: WinGate 8 only. WinGate 7 has a fixed location for temporary files that is in the WinGate installation directory.

Before items can be placed into a cache volume they are downloaded to the temporary files location. In some circumstances you may which to change this location to better suit your caching environment. Some things to consider when deciding the location of cache temporary files include:

1. The default location is on the WinGate installation disk and this may degrade performance of the WinGate machine there are many disk I/O operations on the disk
2. Placing items into the cache is MUCH faster if the temporary file location resides on the same filesystem volume as the cache volume it is going into. If, for example, you place your cache volume on an external disk it will be faster to insert new cache items if the temporary files location is on the same filesystem volume on that disk. e.g. If your cache volume is on E:\cache_volumes\volume1, then placing your temporary files location anywhere on the E:\ drive would improve cache insertions.