Install Varnish 3 on CentOS 6 or Redhat#

For RHEL 6 and compatible distributions, use

rpm --nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
yum install varnish
varnish -v

config #

• vi /etc/varnish/default.vcl

Change IP to listen on specific IP and update VCL as required

backend default {
  .host = "xx.xx.xx.xx";
  .port = "80";
}

sub vcl_recv{

if (!req.request == "GET") {
                return(pass);
        }
else
{

return(lookup);
}


}
sub vcl_fetch{
set beresp.ttl = 1w;
return(deliver);
}

• change port on varnish to listen to 80 for specific IP
• Change port on apache to listen to 8080

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/statistics.html

Varnish config file#

/etc/sysconfig/varnish

• Restart

service varnish restart

• Log

Prime the cache#

• Prime cache by running a log for a few days

varnishlog -D -a -w /var/log/varnish.log

• Then load in log file

varnishreplay -r /var/log/varnish.log

varnishtop -i txurl

Compilation error on a VCL, run from command line to view the error#

varnishd -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -s malloc,1G -T 127.0.0.1:2000  -a 0.0.0.0:8080 -d

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