# I can not clear view cache

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**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [July 24, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/i-can-not-clear-view-cache/33237 "2024-07-24T09:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roland-Szucs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@Roland-Szucs](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/Roland-Szucs)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2024, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/i-can-not-clear-view-cache/33237/1 "2024-07-24T09:31:42Z")

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I use Django 5/Gunicorn/Nginx stack and my relevant cache related settings:

```python
...
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    "django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    "django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]
CACHES = {
    "default": {
        "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyMemcacheCache",
        "LOCATION": "127.0.0.1:11211",
    }
}
...

```

I use `@cache_page(60 * 60 * 24 * 30)` decorator to cache some of my views, which are expected to change very rarely. But if it changes, it must go live immediately. I tried to clear the cache by the following way resulting no success:

- Restarting Gunicorn
- Restart Nginx
- Reboot the development server
- Clear the cache from the django shell by `cache.clear()`

Any idea to solve this is a great help.

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![anefta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.djangoproject.com/anefta/32/10649_2.png) [@anefta](https://forum.djangoproject.com/u/anefta)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.djangoproject.com/t/i-can-not-clear-view-cache/33237/2 "2024-07-25T09:34:46Z")

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Hi,

1. I think your middlewate ordering is wrong - Check it here: [Middleware | Django documentation | Django](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/middleware/#middleware-ordering)

So the correct order probably should be:

```auto
MIDDLEWARE = [
    "debug_toolbar.middleware.DebugToolbarMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    "django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware",
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    "django.middleware.cache.FetchFromCacheMiddleware",
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
]

```

1. You could try the `cache_page` decorator with a custom cache key. [Django’s cache framework | Django documentation | Django](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/cache/#the-per-view-cache)

```auto
from django.core.cache import cache
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page

@cache_page(60 * 60 * 24 * 30, key_prefix='my_view')
def my_view(request):
    # Your view logic here
    # Make sure to update the cache key when the view changes
    cache_key = cache.make_key('my_view', request.GET)
    cache.delete(cache_key)
    # Rest of your view logic

```