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On a previous post I already explained briefly what Varnish is and the advantages of running it along with Pound to get an amazing caching architecture under HTTPS for Drupal. On this tutorial I'll upgrade the steps so we can run both, Drupal 7 and Drupal 8 sites with Varnish 4.x which at the time of this post, is the latest supported by Drupal 8. Also, the Ubuntu version used is 16.04 which is the latest LTS release from the Ubuntu guys.
Alright, let's begin by getting the required packages. First, we need to get Pound, a version superior to 2.7 which implements fixes for Poodle attacks. Visit this…
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This is a super quick guide to add certificate files to a Pound proxy, very useful when using it in environments with Varnish servers. This configuration was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04
Follow the next steps that I took as sample from this site to configure Pound with a self-signed certificate, make sure to run all commands as root:
$ sudo su
Pound HTTPS Configuration
The following steps will guide you through the generation of a self-signed certificate for your test project server.
During the process you will create:
- server.key: This is a 1024 bit random string ("private key") that uniquely identifies your server.
- server.csr: This is a "Certificate Signing Request" file. You can…