curl: (52) Empty reply from server

May 20, 2015 13.1k

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IIPPs

Hi,

I'm here to do according to the optimized configuration nginx.conf - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-optimize-nginx-configuration

Then when I try to execute "curl -X PURGE http://www.myname.com/index.php" I got this error message -curl: (52) Empty reply from server

This is what's wrong? How can I fix this error?

3 comments

jesin May 20, 2015
Why are you sending a PURGE request?

This request is meant to clear the cache and is commonly used with Varnish and Nginx if it was compiled with the ngx_cache_purge module.
IIPPs May 24, 2015
Yes, I want to manually clear the cache.
jesin June 11, 2015
The article you've mentioned doesn't say anything about purging the cache. What are you looking to purge?

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ryanpq MOD December 21, 2017

The ngxcachepurge module is not included in the pre-compiled nginx included in most distributions as far as I know.

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