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Install {{Package|www-servers/varnish}}
Install {{Package|www-servers/varnish}}
<console>###i##www-servers/varnish</console>
<console>###i## www-servers/varnish</console>


==Configuration==
==Configuration==
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To start varnish immediately:
To start varnish immediately:
<console>###i##rc-service varnishd start</console>
<console>###i## rc-service varnishd start</console>


To start varnish at boot:
To start varnish at boot:
<console>###i##rc-update add varnishd default</console>
<console>###i## rc-update add varnishd default</console>


== Verification ==
== Verification ==
To verify that your traffic is going through varnish.
To verify that your traffic is going through varnish.
<console>$##i##curl -I https://www.varnish-cache.org/</console>
<console>$##i## curl -I https://www.varnish-cache.org/</console>


[[Category:Server]]
[[Category:Server]]

Revision as of 06:38, June 27, 2014

Varnish

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Varnish is a webcache & http accelerator. Varnish will either serve cached content, or retireve content from the server, and cache it. Varnish will reduce I/O pressure from webservers.

Install

Emerge

Install www-servers/varnish

root # www-servers/varnish

Configuration

Configuration is controlled by /etc/varnish/default.vcl

   /etc/varnish/default.vcl - varnish configuration file
# backend default {
#     .host = "127.0.0.1";
#     .port = "8080";
# }

Any traffic pointed at port 8080 will be through varnish.

BootService

To start varnish immediately:

root # rc-service varnishd start

To start varnish at boot:

root # rc-update add varnishd default

Verification

To verify that your traffic is going through varnish.

user $ curl -I https://www.varnish-cache.org/