Small varnish 1.1 test with openrealty and joomla.

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at linpro.no>:

> eculp at encontacto.net writes:
>> This is from the apache log:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 - - [31/Jul/2007:16:33:22 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1"
>> 404 209 "http://nuevo.ecomania.info/" "Opera/9.22 (X11; Linux i686; U;
>> en)"
>
> This shows that Apache gets the correct Host: header from Varnish.
>
>> The varnishlog -r /var/log/varnish.log is attached (4k) and again my
>> interpretation is the same.
>
> The log you attached shows a cache hit and is therefore useless.
>
>> If I change the default
>>
>> backend default {
>>   set backend.host = "127.0.0.1";
>>   set backend.port = "8080";
>> }
>>
>> to
>>
>> backend nuevo {
>>         set backend.host = "nuevo.ecomania.info";
>>         set backend.port = "8080";
>> }
>>
>> with all else the same, it works as expected because
>> http://nuevo.ecomania.info is configured as an apache vhost.
>
> No.  The value of backend.host is *not* used for the Host: header.
> However, "nuevo.ecomania.info" and "127.0.0.1" are *not* equivalent.  My
> conclusion is that Apache is misconfigured; you probably have
> "NameVirtualHost 189.129.5.82" instead of "NameVirtualHost *", or your
> VirtualHost entry starts with "<VirtualHost nuevo.ecomania.info>"
> instead of "<VirtualHost *>".

Very true, I changed to the IP years ago and don't even remember why  
but that is much better than my solution, modifying default.vcl.

Thanks,

ed