Today, we just released the Varnish-ed site I posted about a few days ago. A few things to be careful about in your Varnish deployment (that I had originally overlooked): Make sure you’re 301 redirecting traffic to your canonical name (http://www.example.com/example to http://example.com/example, or vice versa) Do this redirecting within Varnish! I had strange problems… Continue reading Varnish: Debrief
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Varnish on a Dynamic Site
TL;DR: Scroll to the bottom for the attached VCL. No, I’m not talking about the stuff you put on paint to make it last longer. I’m talking about this amazing piece of software: https://www.varnish-cache.org/ Put simply, Varnish is a “reverse proxy” – a piece of software that goes between the main server and the client. Basically… Continue reading Varnish on a Dynamic Site