Varnish as a frontend for a remote WordPress install – Part 2

Part of this setup Nginx, MySql, PHP and WordPress. This part is for configuring Varnish 4.0 on Ubuntu 14.04

On varnish.chris.example.com

Install Varnish 4.0

  1. Add Varnish’s GPG key
    curl https://repo.varnish-cache.org/ubuntu/GPG-key.txt | sudo apt-key add -
  2. Add the source location
    echo "deb https://repo.varnish-cache.org/ubuntu/ trusty varnish-4.0" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/varnish-cache.list
  3. Update local cache
    sudo apt-get update
  4. Perform a version check to make sure that Varnish 4.0 is listed:
    sudo apt-get install -s varnish
  5. Install
    sudo apt-get install varnish

Configure Varnish

  1. Edit the main config file for Varnish
    sudo vi /etc/default/varnish
  2. Change the 6081 to 80 in this block.
    Before

    DAEMON_OPTS="-a :6081 \
                 -T localhost:6082 \
                 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
                 -S /etc/varnish/secret \
                 -s malloc,256m"
    

    After

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

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