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CacheBehaviorPerPath - Amazon Lightsail

CacheBehaviorPerPath

Describes the per-path cache behavior of an Amazon Lightsail content delivery network (CDN) distribution.

A per-path cache behavior is used to override, or add an exception to, the default cache behavior of a distribution. For example, if the cacheBehavior is set to cache, then a per-path cache behavior can be used to specify a directory, file, or file type that your distribution will cache. Alternately, if the distribution's cacheBehavior is dont-cache, then a per-path cache behavior can be used to specify a directory, file, or file type that your distribution will not cache.

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behavior

The cache behavior for the specified path.

You can specify one of the following per-path cache behaviors:

  • cache - This behavior caches the specified path.

  • dont-cache - This behavior doesn't cache the specified path.

Type: String

Valid Values: dont-cache | cache

Required: No

path

The path to a directory or file to cached, or not cache. Use an asterisk symbol to specify wildcard directories (path/to/assets/*), and file types (*.html, *jpg, *js). Directories and file paths are case-sensitive.

Examples:

  • Specify the following to cache all files in the document root of an Apache web server running on a Lightsail instance.

    var/www/html/

  • Specify the following file to cache only the index page in the document root of an Apache web server.

    var/www/html/index.html

  • Specify the following to cache only the .html files in the document root of an Apache web server.

    var/www/html/*.html

  • Specify the following to cache only the .jpg, .png, and .gif files in the images sub-directory of the document root of an Apache web server.

    var/www/html/images/*.jpg

    var/www/html/images/*.png

    var/www/html/images/*.gif

    Specify the following to cache all files in the images sub-directory of the document root of an Apache web server.

    var/www/html/images/

Type: String

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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