[Wordpress]homepage not purging (Everton Blair)

Everton Blair everton at connectedinternet.co.uk
Sun Jul 10 13:41:45 CEST 2011


Hi

I managed to fix this by using this VCL file
https://github.com/mattiasgeniar/varnish-3.0-configuration-templates.  Not
sure how, but it worked!!!

Thanks for all the help guys.

Regards

Everton

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Enno van Amerongen <enno at tty.nl> wrote:

> **
> use a far shorter ttl, 10-15 mins is way too much, use something like 10
> seconds or even less. that will result in max 0.1 req/sec on your backend, I
> doubt that's a problem.
>
> Enno
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Everton Blair [mailto:everton at connectedinternet.co.uk]
> *To:* Stewart Robinson [mailto:stewsnooze at gmail.com]
> *Cc:* varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org [mailto:
> varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org]
> *Sent:* Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:11:07 +0200
>
> *Subject:* Re: [Wordpress]homepage not purging (Everton Blair)
>
> Hi Stewart
>
> Really appreciate you replying and trying to help as this has been driving
> me mad!
>
> Caching the homepage for a shorter period is a potentially a good idea, and
> I could I guess set it to purge say every 10-15 minutes, so it'd only be one
> 'unlucky' person who would see an uncached page every 10-15 mins.  Not
> ideal, but it'd work.  It'd be even better if I could purge the page and
> then somehow prime the cache again automatically with the page.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Stewart Robinson <stewsnooze at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 8 Jul 2011, at 20:16, Everton Blair <everton at connectedinternet.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> sorry, I meant to say new posts ARE NOT forcing the homepage to
>> purge/update, so I need a way to get the homepage to update whenever any
>> purge request comes in.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:05 PM, <<varnish-misc-request at varnish-cache.org>
>> varnish-misc-request at varnish-cache.org> wrote:
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>>>   1. Re: Drupal 7.x & Varnish 3.x (Flatcircle)
>>>   2. Varnish + Apache + SSL + Pound? (Scott Wilcox)
>>>   3. Re:[Wordpress]homepage not purging (Everton Blair) (Everton Blair)
>>>
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:26:18 +0200
>>> From: Flatcircle < <flatcircle at hotmail.com>flatcircle at hotmail.com>
>>> To: Mattias Geniar < <mattias at nucleus.be>mattias at nucleus.be>
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 19:37:38 +0100
>>> From: Scott Wilcox < <scott at dor.ky>scott at dor.ky>
>>> To: < <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>
>>> Subject: Varnish + Apache + SSL + Pound?
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>>> Hello folks,
>>>
>>> I've seen this and similar questions asked often and with varying
>>> replies. I'd like to have my own scenario looked at. I'm currently in the
>>> process of redesigning my work flow for one of my projects. The main web
>>> server that serves content is Apache. I plan to have Varnish caching this
>>> traffic where applicable. I would like to add a layer of redundancy in
>>> regards to alerting users of problems too. I also need to support SSL too.
>>>
>>> I'm looking at having pound accept connections which is then passed to
>>> varnish. Varnish then handles the traffic as normal.
>>>
>>> I've seen in v3 that basic HTML can be output for errors, but I'd like to
>>> include a stylesheet and logo too. I can host these off the site if needed,
>>> but I've considered having 'pretty' error messages which include stylesheets
>>> and images. I'd obviously have to host these off site which isn't a problem.
>>>
>>> Is it better to use nginx to accept both HTTP and HTTPS connections and
>>> serve the errors/content or does my original plan sound better?
>>>
>>> What do you use in production and why?
>>>
>>> Do you recommend pound or nginx?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for replies in advance.
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:04:40 +0100
>>> From: Everton Blair < <everton at connectedinternet.co.uk>
>>> everton at connectedinternet.co.uk>
>>> To: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> Subject: Re:[Wordpress]homepage not purging (Everton Blair)
>>> Message-ID:
>>>        <<CAOAN0RQEraiGv9e8K3jTsAuM3YOdgAyBK8iahHZBcZY1sfFTdw at mail.gmail.com>
>>> CAOAN0RQEraiGv9e8K3jTsAuM3YOdgAyBK8iahHZBcZY1sfFTdw at mail.gmail.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me with my problem please?  It's been causing me major
>>> problems.  Basically I'm using Wordpress and new posts have been forcing
>>> the
>>> homepage to purge, I think because I'm using a special template within
>>> wordpress to create the homepage and I think Varnish doesn't realise it
>>> needs to purge that page
>>>
>>> What I want to do is force varnish to purge my homepage when any purge
>>> requests come in to make sure it stays fresh and to be safe, but I can't
>>> get
>>> this to work:
>>>
>>> sub vcl_recv {
>>>  if (req.request == "PURGE") {
>>>            if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
>>>                error 405 "Not allowed.";
>>>                }
>>> if (req.url == "^ <http://windows7news.com/$>windows7news.com/$") {
>>> purge(HOW DO I TELL VARNISH TO PURGE
>>>  <http://www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/>
>>> http://www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/ ????);
>>>  }
>>> if (req.url == "^ <http://windows8news.com/$>windows8news.com/$") {
>>>  purge(HOW DO I TELL VARNISH TO PURGE
>>>  <http://www.windows8news.com/magazine-homepage/>
>>> http://www.windows8news.com/magazine-homepage/ ???);
>>>  }
>>> return(lookup);
>>>        }
>>> }
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 11:46 AM, <<varnish-misc-request at varnish-cache.org>
>>> varnish-misc-request at varnish-cache.org>wrote:
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>>> > Today's Topics:
>>> >
>>> >   1. Re: Does Varnish uses ETag? (Geoff Simmons)
>>> >   2. Fwd: [Wordpress]homepage not purging (Everton Blair)
>>> >   3. Re: errno = Connection reset by peer (Tollef Fog Heen)
>>> >   4. Re: Varnishstat question (Tollef Fog Heen)
>>> >   5. Possible bug with very large headers in varnish-3.0.0
>>> >      revision 3bd5997 (Lee Trout)
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > Message: 1
>>> > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:23:54 +0200
>>> > From: Geoff Simmons < <geoff at uplex.de>geoff at uplex.de>
>>> > To: Kurt Kraut < <listas at kurtkraut.net>listas at kurtkraut.net>
>>> > Cc: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> > Subject: Re: Does Varnish uses ETag?
>>> > Message-ID: < <4E16DABA.2050606 at uplex.de>4E16DABA.2050606 at uplex.de>
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>>> >
>>> > On 7/7/11 11:14 PM, Kurt Kraut wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Does Varnish used ETag to check cache freshness?
>>> >
>>> > Mainline Varnish doesn't, but there's an experimental branch
>>> > 'experimental-ims' on the source repository in which it's implemented.
>>> >
>>> > > - If yes, how does it behave?
>>> >
>>> > <http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendConditionalRequests>
>>> http://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/BackendConditionalRequests
>>> >
>>> > As per the RFC, freshness checks against ETags are done with
>>> conditional
>>> > requests to the backend using If-None-Match.
>>> >
>>> > > - If not, is it possible to achive through VCL?
>>> >
>>> > I don't think so, because standard VCL doesn't have a way to access an
>>> > object in the cache that has an expired TTL, but otherwise matches the
>>> > request, and hence could be refreshed.
>>> >
>>> > So you don't ordinarily know an ETag in VCL that could be used for the
>>> > refresh, and even if you did, and got a 304 response from the backend,
>>> > there's no way to tell Varnish to deliver the stale object after all.
>>> >
>>> > If you get a chance to try the IMS branch, please let us know how it
>>> goes.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Geoff
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>>> >
>>> > ------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > Message: 2
>>> > Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 11:38:57 +0100
>>> > From: Everton Blair < <everton at connectedinternet.co.uk>
>>> everton at connectedinternet.co.uk>
>>> > To: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> > Subject: Fwd: [Wordpress]homepage not purging
>>> > Message-ID:
>>> >        <CAOAN0RTbMwwiYOTiZZcHA+h7HXYkDut7NLE_+c_ef=<CCDxm4Xw at mail.gmail.com>
>>> CCDxm4Xw at mail.gmail.com
>>> > >
>>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>> >
>>> > Hi
>>> >
>>> > I've just started using Varnish with Wordpress/W3TC, and all is ok,
>>> apart
>>> > from my homepage not purging when an update is made e.g. a new post.  I
>>> > think this might be because my homepage is using a static page
>>> > <http://www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/>
>>> www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/ as it's homepage and is doing
>>> some
>>> > magic within Wordpress to show this page when the page
>>> > <http://www.windows7news.com/is>www.windows7news.com/is requested i.e.
>>> the server doesn't know that
>>> > <http://www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/>
>>> www.windows7news.com/magazine-homepage/ needs purging.
>>> >
>>> > I thought I'd temporariliy managed to fix this by adding:
>>> >
>>> > sub vcl_recv {
>>> >       if (req.url ~ "^/") {
>>> >               return(pass);
>>> >            }
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > But I only managed to turn the cache off completely.  Is there anyway
>>> to
>>> > tell Varnish to always purge the homepage if there's a change?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks in advance for any help.
>>> >
>>> > My full VCL is below.  If anyone has any Wordpress specific changes
>>> they'd
>>> > like to share then please send them my way!
>>> >
>>> >  Regards
>>> >
>>> > EB
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > backend b96_30_20_4 {
>>> > .host = "96.30.20.4";
>>> > .port = "8080";
>>> > .probe = {
>>> >                .url = "/";
>>> >                .interval = 5s;
>>> >                .timeout = 1 s;
>>> >                .window = 5;
>>> >                .threshold = 3;
>>> >  }
>>> > // we include time outs so uploads don't time out
>>> >  .connect_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > backend b96_30_20_5 {
>>> > .host = "96.30.20.5";
>>> > .port = "8080";
>>> > .probe = {
>>> >                .url = "/";
>>> >                .interval = 5s;
>>> >                .timeout = 1 s;
>>> >                .window = 5;
>>> >                .threshold = 3;
>>> >  }
>>> > // we include time outs so uploads don't time out
>>> >  .connect_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > backend b96_30_20_6 {
>>> > .host = "96.30.20.6";
>>> > .port = "8080";
>>> > .probe = {
>>> >                .url = "/";
>>> >                .interval = 5s;
>>> >                .timeout = 1 s;
>>> >                .window = 5;
>>> >                .threshold = 3;
>>> >  }
>>> > // we include time outs so uploads don't time out
>>> >  .connect_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > backend b96_30_20_7 {
>>> > .host = "96.30.20.7";
>>> > .port = "8080";
>>> > .probe = {
>>> >                .url = "/";
>>> >                .interval = 5s;
>>> >                .timeout = 1 s;
>>> >                .window = 5;
>>> >                .threshold = 3;
>>> >  }
>>> > // we include time outs so uploads don't time out
>>> >  .connect_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > backend b96_30_18_15 {
>>> > .host = "96.30.18.15";
>>> > .port = "8080";
>>> >  .probe = {
>>> >                .url = "/";
>>> >                .interval = 5s;
>>> >                .timeout = 1 s;
>>> >                .window = 5;
>>> >                .threshold = 3;
>>> >  }
>>> > // we include time outs so uploads don't time out
>>> >  .connect_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
>>> >  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > acl a96_30_20_4 {
>>> > "96.30.20.4";
>>> > }
>>> > acl a96_30_20_5 {
>>> > "96.30.20.5";
>>> > }
>>> > acl a96_30_20_6 {
>>> > "96.30.20.6";
>>> > }
>>> > acl a96_30_20_7 {
>>> > "96.30.20.7";
>>> > }
>>> > acl a96_30_18_15 {
>>> > "96.30.18.15";
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > acl purge {
>>> >        "96.30.20.4";
>>> >  "96.30.20.5";
>>> > "96.30.20.6";
>>> > "96.30.20.7";
>>> >  "96.30.18.15";
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > sub vcl_recv {
>>> > if (server.ip ~ a96_30_20_4) {
>>> >  set req.backend = b96_30_20_4;
>>> > }
>>> > if (server.ip ~ a96_30_20_5) {
>>> >  set req.backend = b96_30_20_5;
>>> > }
>>> > if (server.ip ~ a96_30_20_6) {
>>> >  set req.backend = b96_30_20_6;
>>> > }
>>> > if (server.ip ~ a96_30_20_7) {
>>> >  set req.backend = b96_30_20_7;
>>> > }
>>> > if (server.ip ~ a96_30_18_15) {
>>> >  set req.backend = b96_30_18_15;
>>> > }
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > sub vcl_recv {
>>> >        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
>>> >                if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
>>> >                        error 405 "Not allowed.";
>>> >                }
>>> >                return(lookup);
>>> >        }
>>> > if (req.url ~ "^/") {
>>> >               return(pass);
>>> >            }
>>> > if (req.url ~ "^/forum/$") {
>>> >               return(pass);
>>> >            }
>>> > if (req.url ~ "^/$") {
>>> >               unset req.http.cookie;
>>> >            }
>>> > }
>>> > sub vcl_hit {
>>> >        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
>>> >                set obj.ttl = 0s;
>>> >                error 200 "Purged.";
>>> >        }
>>> > }
>>> > sub vcl_miss {
>>> >        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
>>> >                error 404 "Not in cache.";
>>> >        }
>>> > if (!(req.url ~ "wp-(login|admin)")) {
>>> >                 unset req.http.cookie;
>>> >                }
>>> >    if (req.url ~
>>> >
>>> >
>>> "^/[^?]+.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|ico|js|css|txt|gz|zip|lzma|bz2|tgz|tbz|html|htm)(\?.|)$")
>>> > {
>>> >       unset req.http.cookie;
>>> >       set req.url = regsub(req.url, "\?.$", "");
>>> >    }
>>> >    if (req.url ~ "^/$") {
>>> >       unset req.http.cookie;
>>> >    }
>>> > }
>>> > sub vcl_fetch {
>>> >        if (req.url ~ "^/$") {
>>> >                unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
>>> >        }
>>> > if (!(req.url ~ "wp-(login|admin)")) {
>>> >                        unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
>>> > }
>>> > }
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>>> > Message: 3
>>> > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:41:30 +0200
>>> > From: Tollef Fog Heen < <tfheen at varnish-software.com>
>>> tfheen at varnish-software.com>
>>> > To: <google at alexus.org>google at alexus.org
>>> > Cc: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> > Subject: Re: errno = Connection reset by peer
>>> > Message-ID: < <8739iht5ph.fsf at qurzaw.varnish-software.com>
>>> 8739iht5ph.fsf at qurzaw.varnish-software.com>
>>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>> >
>>> > ]] alexus
>>> >
>>> > |    70 Debug        c "Write error, retval = -1, len = 10212, errno =
>>> > | Connection reset by peer"
>>> > |
>>> > | other then vcl_error(404, unknown virtual host) what that other
>>> message
>>> > | really mean?
>>> >
>>> > That the client disconnected before we were done sending the object.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Tollef Fog Heen
>>> > Varnish Software
>>> > t: +47 21 98 92 64
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > Message: 4
>>> > Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:44:45 +0200
>>> > From: Tollef Fog Heen < <tfheen at varnish-software.com>
>>> tfheen at varnish-software.com>
>>> > To: Jonathan Hursey < <jonathan.hursey at adrevolution.com>
>>> jonathan.hursey at adrevolution.com>
>>> > Cc: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> > Subject: Re: Varnishstat question
>>> > Message-ID: < <87y609rqzm.fsf at qurzaw.varnish-software.com>
>>> 87y609rqzm.fsf at qurzaw.varnish-software.com>
>>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>> >
>>> > ]] Jonathan Hursey
>>> >
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > | Greetings fellow varnish enthusiasts. I was wondering if anyone could
>>> > help
>>> > | me determine what would be considered good values for the follow
>>> fields
>>> > in
>>> > | varnishstat output and what these fields indicate:
>>> > |
>>> > |   1         0.00         0.00 N vcl total
>>> > |            1         0.00         0.00 N vcl available
>>> >
>>> > This just tells you that you have one VCL loaded.
>>> >
>>> > |            7          .            .   N total active purges
>>> > |            7         0.00         0.00 N new purges added
>>> >
>>> > You have 7 bans added
>>> >
>>> > |         6112         0.00         0.02 N objects tested
>>> >
>>> > And 6112 objects tested against those bans in total.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > --
>>> > Tollef Fog Heen
>>> > Varnish Software
>>> > t: +47 21 98 92 64
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > ------------------------------
>>> >
>>> > Message: 5
>>> > Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:44:26 -0400
>>> > From: Lee Trout < <lee at leetrout.com>lee at leetrout.com>
>>> > To: <varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org>varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
>>> > Subject: Possible bug with very large headers in varnish-3.0.0
>>> >        revision 3bd5997
>>> > Message-ID: <BANLkTin7OC0zAFdedQQk3Mb42ozP= <eVPwg at mail.gmail.com>
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>>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>>> >
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > Please excuse the interruption, but I wanted to see if I may have
>>> > stumbled upon a bug or if there is a known issue or configuration
>>> > option for requests with very large header values.
>>> >
>>> > Using varnish-3.0.0 revision 3bd5997 when a large request comes in
>>> > (cookie header ~3k characters) the header is lost.  I am seeing
>>> > "LostHeader   c Cookie:" in the logs.
>>> >
>>> > This paste includes the request and results comparing varnish-3.0.0
>>> > revision 3bd5997 and varnish-2.1.4 SVN 5447M
>>> > <http://pastebin.com/J2Qn0KGn>http://pastebin.com/J2Qn0KGn
>>> >
>>> > Thank you in advance for your time and suggestions.
>>> >
>>> > Lee
>>> > --
>>> > Lee Trout
>>> > <http://www.leetrout.com>http://www.leetrout.com
>>> >
>>> >
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>> There is a separate tool called varnishadm that can regularly purge pages.
>> Use that. Although you'll have to figure out how to trigger it on post.
>> Alternatively can't you just cache the front page for only a minute or
>> similar?
>>
>> Stew
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