minimal install instructions: - configure nginx with ./configure --add-module=/path/to/mapcache/nginx the supplied nginx.conf contains an example configuration to load mapcache. the relevant part is: location ~ ^/mapcache(?/.*|$) { set $url_prefix "/mapcache"; mapcache /home/tbonfort/dev/mapserver-trunk/mapcache/mapcache.xml; } the and $url_prefix are important and are used by mapcache to parse the incoming requests. before running nginx, set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where libmapcache was installed if that is a non standard location.