How to completely prohibit caching of the administrative part of the site?

[Spidometrs]

How to completely prohibit caching of the administrative part of the site?

My site on Laravel 10 has an administrative part https://mysite.com/admin
The administrative part of the site has links of the type:
https://mysite.com/admin/system/users/profile/1
https://mysite.com/admin/pages
https://mysite.com/admin/pages/edit/22

In which directory should I create a file and what code to write to this file in order to completely prohibit the pages of the administrative part of the site?
I ask for help.

[vinhkhangphung]

You can use the exposed middleware CacheResponse and DoNotCacheResponse per route or route group to allow/prevent the caching behaviors, as in https://github.com/spatie/laravel-responsecache?tab=readme-ov-file#preventing-a-request-from-being-cached
Installlation guide: https://github.com/spatie/laravel-responsecache?tab=readme-ov-file#installation

[Spidometrs]

Laravel 10.

I added to the app/Http/Kernel.php file:

...

protected $middlewareAliases = [
   ...
   'doNotCacheResponse' => \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\DoNotCacheResponse::class,
   'cacheResponse' => \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
];

Next, I added to the /routes/web.php file:

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider and all of them will
| be assigned to the "web" middleware group. Make something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', 'PublicController@getIndex')->middleware('cacheResponse:300');

?>

I expected to get a caching of the front -end of my site, but nothing happens.

Next, I changed the record to caching one content page, but received a 500 error.
Route::get('/contact', 'PublicController@getIndex')->middleware('cacheResponse:300');
What am I doing wrong?

[vinhkhangphung]

I cannot troubleshooting without further info, so may I ask about your current response cache driver? ("array", "database", "file", "memcached", "redis", "dynamodb", "octane", "null")?

[Spidometrs]

"redis"

[khangphung-vl]

• Have you start Redis yet? Either by keeping terminal alive to run Redis, run as Windows service, Docker, Laragon,... your choice. Test it out by client-cli then type PING, you should receive PONG as result.
• Does it run on the correct port? (usually it's 6379, look at the database.php config file)
• Do you have a RESPONSE_CACHE_DRIVER=redis in the env file? It will be used by the responsecache.php config file
  'cache_store' => env('RESPONSE_CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),
• Have you install any Redis Client for PHP? (either predis or phpredis, I personally use predis) and specify it as REDIS_CLIENT=predis in the env file? It will be used by database.php
  'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'phpredis')
  (I'm not sure about the the last one, you must try it out yourself)

[Spidometrs]

• Have you start Redis yet? Either by keeping terminal alive to run Redis, run as Windows service, Docker, Laragon,... your choice. Test it out by client-cli then type PING, you should receive PONG as result.

  • Does it run on the correct port? (usually it's 6379, look at the database.php config file)

  • Do you have a RESPONSE_CACHE_DRIVER=redis in the env file? It will be used by the responsecache.php config file
    'cache_store' => env('RESPONSE_CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),

  • Have you install any Redis Client for PHP? (either predis or phpredis, I personally use predis) and specify it as REDIS_CLIENT=predis in the env file? It will be used by database.php
    'client' => env('REDIS_CLIENT', 'phpredis')
    (I'm not sure about the the last one, you must try it out yourself)

...

Of course, Redis has already been installed and works great with other scripts.
laravel-responsecache - does not work if I connect it to the Protected $middlewareAliases:

...
protected $middlewareAliases = [
   ...
   'doNotCacheResponse' => \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\DoNotCacheResponse::class,
   'cacheResponse' => \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
];

If I connect laravel-responsecache to:

...

protected $middlewareGroups = [
   'web' => [
       ...
       \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
   ],

...

protected $middlewareAliases = [
   ...
   'doNotCacheResponse' => \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\DoNotCacheResponse::class,
];

then he caching the entire site.
But I need to caching some controllers.
How can I cach some controllers?

[vinhkhangphung]

protected $middlewareGroups = [
   'web' => [
       ...
       \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
   ],

This code essentially make the whole web route going through the CacheResponse middleware, so as you said, this setting caches everything. I guess Redis is not the issue here. Can you reproduce the problem, if you can, please share it.

[Spidometrs]

It is possible that my file /routes/web.php is not complete:

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider and all of them will
| be assigned to the "web" middleware group. Make something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', 'PublicController@getIndex')->middleware('cacheResponse:300');

?>

I still have to add to the code of this file?

[vinhkhangphung]

It's either

1. Register the whole web route to go through the cacheResponse middleware

protected $middlewareGroups = [
   'web' => [
       ...
       \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
   ],

2. Register each route or route group to go through the cacheResponse middleware
   Route::get('/', 'PublicController@getIndex')->middleware('cacheResponse:300');

[Spidometrs]

It's either

1. Register the whole `web` route to go through the cacheResponse middleware

protected $middlewareGroups = [
   'web' => [
       ...
       \Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse::class,
   ],

2. Register each route or route group to go through the cacheResponse middleware
   `Route::get('/', 'PublicController@getIndex')->middleware('cacheResponse:300');`

In this case, the entire site is caching.
In this case, the routing does not work for the specified controller.
This option is not suitable for use.