Introduction
While checking the referrals to my page, I have found that one visitor came through google with the “why use varnish with nginx” keyword, these days I’ve been experimenting with both Nginx and Varnish, in front of my Apache server with a Drupal application.
So, I decided to write a little about what I’ve found.
If you do not know about Nginx or Varnish, here is
Putting Varnish In Front Of Apache On Ubuntu/Debian
Varnish is an open source "web accelerator" which you can use to
speed up your website. It can cache certain static elements, such as images or javascript
but you can also use it for other purposes such as Loadbalancing or some
additional security.
Introduction
If you want to use Varnish with Virtual Hosts, you may face the problem of Varnish showing only the default site and not all other virtual sites.
Do not try to fix it tweaking Varnish, as this is something you need to solve in Apache or Nginx configuration, depending on which of them is behind varnish.
In this post I'll show you how to configure both of them Nginx and Apache.
How to c
I have have a nginx server serving http and https and I have varnish behind to cache the apache requests
nginx (80+443) -> varnish (6081) -> apache (8081)
when I serve pages using 443, pages are already cached with port 80 (image references etc)
therefore browser alerts saying there is some encrypted and unencrypted content on the page.
I cant use relative URLS.
ApacheBooster is a integration of nginx and varnish, this Plugin will reduce the server load spike and memory usage. Also the plugin will provide the maximum performance of your websites.
Varnish
Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configure it to cache the contents.
We are currently spiking a Varnish implementation to see if it would be appropriate to sit in front of our Rails application.
We want Varnish to cache the results of an API call and only hit the application when the client's ETag doesn't match the one stored in Varnish or the client's modified date is before Varnish's.
So far, I have not seen Varnish take these values into account.
We only get
I'm trying to configure varnish to cache every GET-Request to our CMS based website (running on apache) without considering the ttl given by the CMS for dynamic or apache for static content.
I am troubleshooting the setup of Varnish 3.x on my Ubuntu server. I'm running Drupal 7 on two sites set up on the box, via named-based vhosts.
Hello to serverfault users,
I would like to kindly ask if there's someone who can help me configure Varnish for Magento
to reach far more hits. My current ratio from varnishstat is:
1. cache_hit=271
2. cache_miss=926
I'm kindly asking this because I've googled almost every site related to this theme, but 99.9% of configurations don't work because of outdated code.
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