Reverse Proxy w/ Cloudflare

How to Remove a Cached Item

Overview
Introduction to Reverse Proxies + Webflow
001
What Problems are we Solving?
What Problems are we Solving here?
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The SSL Problem
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Maximizing Site Performance
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Staying Within Webflow's Hosting Plan Traffic Limits
104
Setup & Configurations
Proxy Configuration Approaches
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Reverse-Proxy DNS Config
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High Performance Configs
Proxying for Performance
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Caching Strategy
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Level 1 - Basic Caching
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Level 2 - Caching + Optimization
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Level 3 - Extended Caching + Optimization
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Level 4 - Advanced Caching + Optimization
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Administration
How to Determine if an Item is Cached
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How to Remove a Cached Item
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Emergency Revert
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Resources
More Resources
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Published
October 28, 2023
Updated
October 28, 2023
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Once in awhile you might update a file and want the changes to appear immediately to the public.

Typical scenarios;

  • You've made a critical change and need it visible immediately
  • You've made a major change to a file that is not often changed, and which has a long cache duration set
  • You've removed a file from your website, and you need it removed immediately from the cache as well

Notes

It's important to remember that Cloudflare has the ability to manage its own cache and what it delivers to browsers. It does not have the ability to directly update a browser's cache.

Beware of setting long browser-cache durations when this may be an issue, because your file can still be cached and displayed by browsers even if you've removed it from your website and Cloudflare cache.

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