Exclude a page from server caching

Step 2: Exclude your page/s

Now inside your server we need to add our page exclusions. Be sure only to use correct command below for the type of page caching you’re using. Adding our exclusion to the wrong caching method will have no effect.

Redis: If you’re using Redis page caching, enter the following and hit enter (replacing site.url with your domain name):

nano /var/www/site.url/nginx/custom-skip-redis-cache-context.conf

FastCGI: If you’re using FastCGI page caching,enter the following and hit enter (replacing site.url with your domain name):

nano /var/www/site.url/nginx/custom-skip-fcgi-cache-context.conf

Then copy the below information and paste inside your SSH client. On most machines, this will be a right-click with your mouse, not a CTRL + V.

if ($request_uri ~* "(/examplepage/)") {
 set $skip_cache 1;
 set $skip_reason "${skip_reason}-request_uri";
}

If all worked correct your screen should look like this:

Now just hit CTRL + X on your keyboard, and it will ask if you want to save, click Y to save.

Exclude Multiple Pages

You can exclude multiple pages from the cache like this:

if ($request_uri ~* "(/examplepage/|/another-page/|third-page/)") {
 set $skip_cache 1;
 set $skip_reason "${skip_reason}-request_uri";
}

Wildcard Exclusions

If you want to exclude a parent page plus all child pages, or an entire CPT (or whatever your use case), you can create a wildcard exclude like this:

if ($request_uri ~* "(/parent-page.*)") {
 set $skip_cache 1;
 set $skip_reason "${skip_reason}-request_uri";
}

Exclude with Cookies

This is more advanced, but useful for developers who have specific use cases where adding each page individually / having to update this regularly could be better handled by setting cookies on specific pages instead. 

Follow the same steps as above, but instead of adding a page specific exclusion, use the following code block to add a cookie exclusion:

if ($http_cookie ~* "your_cookie_name") {
set $skip_cache 1;
set $skip_reason "${skip_reason}-your_cookie";
}