After you enable the development mode, all requests are redirected to the origin server. This allows requests to your website to temporarily bypass the caching components of Edge Security Acceleration (ESA) so that you can verify changes to the cached content. This feature is useful when you want to view changes in real time. Once enabled, the development mode lasts for 3 hours and then is automatically disabled.
Unless you have made major changes to your website, we recommend that you use the purge cache feature instead of enabling the development mode. In the development mode, all requests are redirected to the origin server, which significantly increases the bandwidth and CPU usage of the origin server.
The development mode has a higher priority than cache rules.
Enabling the development mode may significantly increase the origin traffic. Disable the development mode after debugging.
The development mode disables automatically 3 hours after it is enabled.
Procedure
Log on to the ESA console.
In the left-side navigation pane, click Websites.
On the Websites page, find the website that you want to manage, and click the website name or View Details in the Actions column.
In the left-side navigation tree, choose .
Turn on Development Mode.
