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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/

@@ Line 11: / Line 11: @@
 Install {{Package|www-servers/varnish}}
-<console>###i##www-servers/varnish</console>
+<console>###i## www-servers/varnish</console>
 ==Configuration==
@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 To start varnish immediately:
-<console>###i##rc-service varnishd start</console>
+<console>###i## rc-service varnishd start</console>
 To start varnish at boot:
-<console>###i##rc-update add varnishd default</console>
+<console>###i## rc-update add varnishd default</console>
 == Verification ==
 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>
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