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‎Make Varnish start on Boot

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Brian: Created page with "==Setting up Varnish Cache with default.vcl== ===What is Varnish Cache?=== Varnish is a web application accelerator. You install it in front of your web application and it w..."

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==Setting up Varnish Cache with default.vcl==

===What is Varnish Cache?===

Varnish is a web application accelerator. You install it in front of your web application and it will speed it up significantly

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 * [[Setup Varnish for Magento]]
 * [[Setup Varnish for Wordpress]]
 * [[Setup Varnish for MediaWiki]]
 * [[Setup Varnish - Multiple Domains]]
 * [[Setup Varnish - Multiple Ipaddress]]

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	==Setting up Varnish Cache with default.vcl==		==Setting up Varnish Cache with default.vcl==

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 Once finished the reader should have a basic Varnish 3.0 cache up and running with the default configuration.
-==Install Varnish YUM Repository==
+===Install Varnish YUM Repository===
   rpm --nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
-==Install Varnish with Yum==
+===Install Varnish with Yum===
   yum install varnish -y
-==Make Varnish start on Boot==
+===Make Varnish start on Boot===
   chkconfig varnish on

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   /etc/init.d/varnish start
 The default installation of Varnish will start off listening to port 6081
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   VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT=80
 Now if you have httpd already started will you will want to stop and make httpd listen on another port, example port 81
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 Now apache will be listing on port 81 and varnish will listen on port 80
 Now you will want to edit you default.vcl file, to tell it use 127.0.0.1:81.
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   /etc/init.d/varnish restart
 Now we check and make sure httpd is listen on port 81 and varnish is listening on port 80

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 ===Additional Articles===
 * [[Setup Varnish for Magento]]
-v [[Setup Varnish for Wordpress]]
+* [[Setup Varnish for Wordpress]]
 * [[Setup Varnish for Drupel]]
 * [[Setup Varnish for MediaWiki]]

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	[[File:Varnish-setup.png\|800px\|frameless\|Varnish Setup ]]		[[File:Varnish-setup.png\|800px\|frameless\|Varnish Setup ]]
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		+	===Additional Articles===
		+	* [[Setup Varnish for Magento]]
		+	v [[Setup Varnish for Wordpress]]
		+	* [[Setup Varnish for Drupel]]
		+	* [[Setup Varnish for MediaWiki]]
		+	* [[Setup Varnish - Multiple Domains]]
		+	* [[Setup Varnish - Multiple vcl files]]
		+	* [[Setup Varnish - Multiple Ipaddress]]

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 You will want to adjust this to listen on port 80 so that it will cache incoming web requests.
-vi /etc/sysconfig/varnish
+ vim /etc/sysconfig/varnish
 Adjust the following value to port 80
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   netstat -nptl | grep -E '80|81'

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	===What is Varnish Cache?===		===What is Varnish Cache?===

−	Varnish is a web application accelerator. You install it in front of your web application and it will speed it up significantly	+	Varnish is a web application accelerator. You install it in front of your web application and it will speed it up significantly.
		+
		+	Once finished the reader should have a basic Varnish 3.0 cache up and running with the default configuration.
		+
		+	==Install Varnish YUM Repository==
		+
		+	rpm --nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-3.0/el6/noarch/varnish-release/varnish-release-3.0-1.el6.noarch.rpm
		+
		+	==Install Varnish with Yum==
		+
		+	yum install varnish -y
		+
		+	==Make Varnish start on Boot==
		+
		+	chkconfig varnish on
		+
		+	Now the basic Varnish install is complete, now lets start it
		+
		+	/etc/init.d/varnish start
		+
		+	The default installation of Varnish will start off listening to port 6081
		+
		+	You will want to adjust this to listen on port 80 so that it will cache incoming web requests.
		+
		+	vi /etc/sysconfig/varnish
		+
		+	Adjust the following value to port 80
		+
		+	VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT=80
		+
		+	Now if you have httpd already started will you will want to stop and make httpd listen on another port, example port 81
		+
		+	sed -i 's/80/81/g' /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
		+
		+	Now restart apache so it will start listen on port 81
		+
		+	/etc/init.d/httpd restart && /etc/init.d/varnish restart
		+
		+	Now apache will be listing on port 81 and varnish will listen on port 80
		+
		+	Now you will want to edit you default.vcl file, to tell it use 127.0.0.1:81.
		+
		+	vim /etc/varnish/default.vcl
		+
		+	Change backend to use port 81, by default its set to port 80.
		+
		+	backend default {
		+	.host = "127.0.0.1";
		+	.port = "81";
		+	}
		+
		+	Now one last varnish restart, and you are up and running with the default varnish installation
		+
		+	/etc/init.d/varnish restart
		+
		+	Now we check and make sure httpd is listen on port 81 and varnish is listening on port 80
		+
		+	netstat -nptl \| grep -E '80\|81'