# Activate the cache locally
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027 "2024-02-06T11:23:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@worldwildweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/worldwildweb)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2024, 11:23am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/1 "2024-02-06T11:23:28Z")
Would it be possible to configure nginx to activate the cache locally?
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/3 "2024-02-07T03:28:58Z")
Hello @worldwildweb Will! š
Thank your reaching us out in our community!
Thatās great question! š
As far as I could see in the NGINX config/settings Editor (for each of the local sites) - under the _Site configurations_ page in DevKinsta , I didnāt see anything mentioned about ācacheā or ācachingā there - and Iām not sure if the NGINX cache feature can be enabled locally .
Weāve asked this to our internal DevKinsta developers team and see if they can provide more information about this (whether itās possible to enable/activate local cache in NGINX or not)! Once we have that information, we will update you again! š
Best Regards,
Agus Utomo
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### Author:  [@worldwildweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/worldwildweb)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/5 "2024-02-07T08:18:49Z")
Thanks @Agus Iām really excited to hear their feedback. I think that would also address many of the slowness issues that Iāve come across on this forum. š
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### Author:  [@VladimirM](https://community.kinsta.com/u/VladimirM)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 9:52am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/6 "2024-02-07T09:52:14Z")
Hello @worldwildweb š
After checking with our engineers, I am sorry to say that we donāt have an out-of-the-box feature in Devkinsta for caching nor there are any immediate plans to add it.
There is an NGINX editor in Devkinsta that you can try to use to set up caching as per the following:
> **[NGINX Content Caching | NGINX Documentation](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/content-cache/content-caching/)**
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> Cache both static and dynamic content from your proxied web and application servers, to speed delivery to clients and reduce the load on the servers.
Since this is not a Devkinsta feature we donāt have a precise guide on how to do it.
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### Author:  [@worldwildweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/worldwildweb)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2024, 11:33am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/7 "2024-02-07T11:33:56Z")
thanks for your reply @VladimirM thatās too bad!
Iām going to submit this as a new feature request.
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### Author:  [@worldwildweb](https://community.kinsta.com/u/worldwildweb)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2024, 10:37am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/8 "2024-02-21T10:37:40Z")
How to ensure the directory `/tmp/nginx_cache` exists and is writable by Nginx? and if it does not exist, how to create it so it doesnāt get overwritten when I update a site or devkinsta?
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### Author:  [@andre](https://community.kinsta.com/u/andre)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2024, 11:49am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/activate-the-cache-locally/3027/9 "2024-02-21T11:49:45Z")
Hello @worldwildweb,
Unfortunately and because DevKinsta doesnāt support caching, that would fall out of scope for our support team.
Itās important to note that, since DevKinsta doesnāt support caching, it wonāt be transferring any contents on that folder (if created) ā it will only synchronize the site files and database.
With that said, to create that folder youād need to follow the standard OS procedure depending on which system youāre using. It is however not possible to āblockā or prevent it from being overwritten and allow Nginx to work with it at the same time, otherwise itās very likely that Nginx wonāt work properly.
Sincerely,
Andre F.