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Varnish Cache

Varnish is great way to speed up your site. Its actually super simple to set up and Suzie will clear your cache any time a post/page is added, updated or deleted. To use Varnish please open .env

VARNISH_PATH=http://domain.com/.*
VARNISH_ENABLED=true

On your server please use following Varnish config:

vcl 4.0;

backend default {
    .host = "127.0.0.1";
    .port = "8080";
}

# Only allow purges from localhost
acl purge {
  # ACL we'll use later to allow purges
  "localhost";
  "127.0.0.1";
  "::1";
}


# Drop any cookies sent to Wordpress.
sub vcl_recv {
  if (req.method == "PURGE") {�
    if (req.http.X-Purge-Method == "regex") {�
      ban("req.url ~ " + req.url + " && req.    http.host ~ " + req.http.host);�
      return (synth(200, "Banned."));�
    } else {�
      return (purge);�
    }�
  }�
  if (!(req.url ~ "(preview=true|wp-login|wp-admin)")) {
    unset req.http.cookie;
  }
}

# Drop any cookies Wordpress tries to send back to the client.
# Set cache to last 24 hours if Cache-Control HTTP header not set.
sub vcl_backend_response {
  if (beresp.ttl == 120s) {�
    set beresp.ttl = 24h;�
  }�

  if (!(bereq.url ~ "(preview=true|wp-login|wp-admin)")) {
    unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
  }
}

Installing Varnish

If your not sure how to install Varnish, below is a guide of using it with either Apache or Nginx on Ubuntu 14. SSH into your servr and run the following five commands.

apt-get install apt-transport-https

curl https://repo.varnish-cache.org/GPG-key.txt | apt-key add -

echo "deb https://repo.varnish-cache.org/ubuntu/ trusty varnish-4.0" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/varnish-cache.list

apt-get update

apt-get install varnish

Configuring Varnish

Now we need to configure to run on port 80. Run to open main config file:

sudo nano /etc/default/varnish

Find this section and update 6081 to 80 so it looks like below.

DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
            -T localhost:6082 \
            -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
            -S /etc/varnish/secret \
            -s malloc,256m"

Now lets open the config file that tells Varnish how to handle request.

sudo nano /etc/varnish/default.vcl

Make this file match the config at the start of this section.

Working with Apache

We need to tell apache to run port 8080 now. Let's open ports.conf

sudo nano /etc/apache2/ports.conf

And update this line to match below.

Listen 8080

You'll also need to update the 000-default and your site config.

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/my-site.conf

Changing the top to this:

 <VirtualHost *:8080>

And finally restart.

sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service varnish restart

Working with Nginx

You'll also need to update the default and your site config.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/my-site

Changing the top to this:

server {
     listen 8080;

And finally restart.

sudo service nginx restart
sudo service varnish restart

Checking if its worked.

You can tell if the site is caching correctly by looking at X-Varnish HTTP header.

Cached header has two numbers:

X-Varnish:65547 3

Not Cached header has one number:

X-Varnish:16