Lab 8 — Cache rules for plan pages

Goal

A working (or validated) dispatcher config where plan pages cache, denied paths 404, and publishing flushes correctly.

If you cannot run Apache locally, use the dispatcher SDK's validator against the config — every exercise below has a "validate" variant.

Steps

1. Start from the default dispatcher config in your project (dispatcher/ module or vendor default dispatcher.any).
2. Filters: confirm deny-by-default, then allow only what the PHI site needs:

allow /content/phi/* pages (html), /etc.clientlibs/*, /content/dam/phi/*. Verify that .json on content, /crx/*, /system/* are denied.

1. Cache rules: cache /content/phi/*; add /ignoreUrlParams for utm_* so campaign links still hit cache.
2. statfileslevel: set to a level that scopes invalidation to a site section (e.g. 3 for /content/phi/plans).
3. Request the gold-hospital page twice; confirm the second is a cache hit (file exists in docroot; publish access

log shows one render).

1. Publish a content change to the page from author; observe the .stat touch and that the next request re-renders.
2. Negative test: request /content/phi/plans/gold-hospital.infinity.json through the dispatcher — expect 404/blocked.

Checkpoint