Serve WP Rocket Cache Directly from Nginx Without PHP

Technical Briefing: WP Rocket Nginx Plugin — Direct Static Cache Delivery The Problem On a self-managed Nginx server running WP Rocket, a cached request still travels the long way around: Nginx → PHP-FPM → PHP cache loader → cached HTML file. The HTML file already exists on disk, but PHP-FPM is still involved in handing it back. That occupies a limited PHP-FPM worker for work Nginx is better suited to do. The cost is most visible during traffic bursts: every direct cache hit that consumes a PHP…