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Appendix D
Configuration Files
For the
parent.config
file to take effect, HTTP parent caching option must be enabled in Traffic Manager.
Refer to
Enabling the HTTP parent caching option‚ on page 52
.
Format
Each line in the
parent.config
file must contain a parent caching rule. Traffic Server recognizes three
space-delimited tags:
primary destination=value secondary specifier=value action=value
The following table lists the possible primary destinations and their allowed values:
The secondary specifiers are optional in the
parent.config
file. The following table lists the possible
secondary specifiers and their allowed values:
IMPORTANT
After you modify the
parent.config
file, Traffic Manager has to reread the
configuration files. Run the
traffic_line -x
command. If you are running a cluster,
you need only run the command for one node; the changes will propagate.
Primary Destination
Allowed Value
dest_domain
Requested domain name
dest_host
Requested hostname
dest_ip
Requested IP address
url_regex
Regular expression to be found in a URL
Secondary Specifiers
Allowed Value
time
A time range, such as 08:00-14:00 during which the parent cache is used
to serve requests.
src_ip
The IP address of the client
prefix
A prefix in the path part of a URL
suffix
A file suffix in the URL
port
A requested URL port
method
A request URL method; one of the following:
•
get
•
post
•
put
trace
scheme
A request URL protocol; one of the following:
•
HTTP
•
FTP