mattiasgeniar/varnish-5.0-configuration-templates

A sane default configuration for Varnish 5.x

Varnish Configuration Templates (boilerplate)

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Installation

You can use the configuration templates found in this repository to quickly get started with a complete Varnish configuration that offers support for most functionality. Start of by looking into "default.vcl" and taking the bits you need, copy it to your own default.vcl.

What is it?

A set of configuration samples used for Varnish 5.0 with various features:

• Server-side URL rewriting
• Clean error pages for debugging
• Virtual Host implementations
• Various header normalizations
• Cookie manipulations
• 301/302 redirects from within Varnish

Common troubleshooting

Common list of errors and their fixes:

• FetchError http first read error: -1 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable)
• FetchError: straight insufficient bytes
• FetchError: Gunzip+ESI Failed at the very end

Basic troubleshooting:

• Test if your Varnish VCL compiles and Varnish starts
• See which cookies are being stripped in your VCL
• Reload Varnish VCL without losing cache data
• Combine Apache'S HTTP authentication with Varnish IP whitelisting

There is already a newer version out: Varnish 6 VCL config template.

varnish-5.0-configuration-templates's Issues

commands for cookies is not vaild for version 5

https://ma.ttias.be/varnish-tip-see-cookies-stripped-vcl/

is not working for varnish 5

it shows:
`varnishlog: invalid option -- 'm'
Usage: varnishlog

Options:
[-a] Append to file
[-A] Text output
[-b] Only display backend records
[-c] Only display client records
[-C] Caseless regular expressions
[-d] Process old log entries and exit
[-D] Daemonize
[-g <session|request|vxid|raw>] Grouping mode (default: vxid)
[-h] Usage help
[-i ] Include tags
[-I <[taglist:]regex>] Include by regex
[-k ] Limit transactions
[-L ] Incomplete transaction limit
[-n

] varnishd working directory
[-N ] VSM filename
[-P ] PID file
[-q ] VSL query
[-r ] Binary file input
[-t <seconds|off>] VSM connection timeout
[-T ] Transaction end timeout
[-v] Verbose record printing
[-V] Version
[-w ] Output filename
[-x ] Exclude tags
[-X <[taglist:]regex>] Exclude by regex`

Not working for me

● varnish.service - Varnish Cache, a high-performance HTTP accelerator
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2016-12-16 15:00:19 UTC; 9s ago
Process: 15812 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m (code=exited, status=2)

Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: sub vcl_hit {
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: ----#######--
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: ...which is the "vcl_hit" method
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: Legal returns are: "deliver" "miss" "pass" "restart" "synth"
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: Running VCC-compiler failed, exited with 2
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima varnishd[15812]: VCL compilation failed
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima systemd[1]: varnish.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima systemd[1]: Failed to start Varnish Cache, a high-performance HTTP accelerator.
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima systemd[1]: varnish.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 16 15:00:19 proxima systemd[1]: varnish.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

High hits but the get request for the css, js,..... are not getting the header

Hi

thanks a lot for ur template hope u continue work on it

I had this stats
https://www.dropbox.com/s/njmi3cbf4myrlkg/Screenshot%202017-05-15%2002.14.18.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qgfplha8lmx513w/Screenshot%202017-05-15%2002.13.23.png?dl=0

but in Pingdom i get this header:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gz3b8dprxreqoxc/Screenshot%202017-05-15%2002.21.56.png?dl=0

is this is because "co-cache" ? but it is on for most files, although I asked varnish to ignore the cookie that my WordPress sets for a guest

please help me

Varnish not working with ssl

Hello!

Is it possible to get varnish working with SSL?

Or is it not using https?

Miss hit on CTRL-F5

I love the script! works perfect, except on one thing:

When I push CTRL-F5 I always get a miss-hit.

Is this normal?

Improvement: BAN is not supported

BAN is not supported. Its used for Drupal 8. See geerlingguy/drupal-vm#397.

sub vcl_recv {

    ...

    # Only allow BAN requests from IP addresses in the 'purge' ACL.
    if (req.method == "BAN") {
        # Same ACL check as above:
        if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
            return (synth(403, "Not allowed."));
        }

        # Logic for the ban, using the Cache-Tags header.
        if (req.http.Cache-Tags) {
            ban("obj.http.Cache-Tags ~ " + req.http.Cache-Tags);
        }
        else {
            return (synth(403, "Cache-Tags header missing."));
        }

        # Throw a synthetic page so the request won't go to the backend.
        return (synth(200, "Ban added."));
    }

    ...

}