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…
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Update: I have updated this tutorial to a latest release of Varnish, read here.
By default, Varnish does not work and it will never work with HTTPS requests it only understands plain HTTP. This means, that on mixed content websites, sites serving HTTPS and HTTP pages, the secure pages won't be or cannot be cached on Varnish reducing the load time compared to the non-secure version of the page for example.
There are many sites that offer lots of static content through HTTPS that can definitely be cached using Varnish and in order to do so we need to implement an extra layer before any… Read more
By default, Varnish does not work and it will never work with HTTPS requests it only understands plain HTTP. This means, that on mixed content websites, sites serving HTTPS and HTTP pages, the secure pages won't be or cannot be cached on Varnish reducing the load time compared to the non-secure version of the page for example.
There are many sites that offer lots of static content through HTTPS that can definitely be cached using Varnish and in order to do so we need to implement an extra layer before any… Read more
On this tutorial I will show you how to configure Varnish as a proxy server so you can re route you requests to any Apache or Nginx Server.
Configuring Varnish on Ubuntu on distributed Servers is not a complex task, we just need to download some packages and then we will have to copy/paste the configurations below in order to start. Feel free to modify the provided configurations according to your needs. This post assumes there is another server Apache/Nginx listening on port 80 and running a Drupal site.
Ok, Let's begin.
Install Varnish 3.0.5 from Ubuntu 14.04… Read more
Configuring Varnish on Ubuntu on distributed Servers is not a complex task, we just need to download some packages and then we will have to copy/paste the configurations below in order to start. Feel free to modify the provided configurations according to your needs. This post assumes there is another server Apache/Nginx listening on port 80 and running a Drupal site.
Ok, Let's begin.
Install Varnish 3.0.5 from Ubuntu 14.04… Read more
