Varnish install on aws

[Tobias Honacker]

FYI: Your backend listen on Port 8080, so you should define this in your
varnish config (.vcl) in /etc/varnish


   1. backend default {
   2.   .host = "127.0.0.1";
   3.   .port = "8080";
   4. }


Varnish Port 80 -> open port 80 on your firewall (Security Group AWS)
Backend Port 8080 -> no need to open port 8080 on your firewall (Security
Group AWS)

So your /etc/sysconfig/varnish might look like:

DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
             -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
              T localhost:6082 \
             -S /etc/varnish/secret \
             -u varnish -g varnish \
             -s file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,1G"

hint: with defining the backend in your config you do not need to specify
this in your daemon_opts.

If you type /etc/init.d/varnish restart and you get Stopping Varnish Cache:
 [FAILED] this might be because your varnish daemon is not alive and cant
be stopped :)

You should also read http://book.varnish-software.com/4.0/


2016-02-15 11:05 GMT+01:00 Mike Jones <michaeljones401 at gmail.com>:

> The output of ‘bash -x /etc/init.d/varnish start’ is
> http://pastebin.com/YiqFDgYJ
>
> vcl config from '/etc/varnish/default.vcl' is http://pastebin.com/wEideMfC
>
> Output of 'netstat -tulpn and iptables -vnL' is
> http://pastebin.com/n5TYJVH5
>
> Thanks
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Tobias Honacker <
> t.honacker at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> please send the vcl config and the output of netstat -tulpn and iptables
>> -vnL
>>
>>
>> greetings
>>
>> 2016-02-13 17:56 GMT+01:00 Mike Jones <michaeljones401 at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I have a 'WordPress basic single instance' from
>>> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/sample-templates-applications-us-west-1.html
>>>
>>> and my varnish file, located in /etc/sysconfig/varnish, looks like
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/hZNr6Apc
>>>
>>> While my httpd conf file, /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, looks like
>>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/xeZs8KQq
>>>
>>> Running varnishstat looks like it's running but when visiting the
>>> webserver through the browser the page fails to load.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Brad Tarver <idle at pobox.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 6082 is the admin port
>>>>
>>>> This is my config on ubuntu: http://pastebin.com/E3tQ1eC1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Brad Tarver
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Mike Jones wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I was talking about the security group, I did open that but it
>>>> didn't make any difference.
>>>>
>>>> With the settings previously mentioned I tried running curl on port 80
>>>> on I get
>>>>
>>>> curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 80: Connection refused.
>>>>
>>>> On port 8080 I get the default apache page, but adding a directory
>>>> after the port 'curl 127.0.0.1:8080/wordpress' I get an error saying
>>>> the page has moved.
>>>>
>>>> On port 6082 I get 'Authentication required'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Lee Trout <lee at leetrout.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> > Do I need to open port 8080 too?
>>>>>
>>>>> Open it where? In a security group? You should make sure you have port
>>>>> 80 open in your security group but that won't affect local host.
>>>>>
>>>>> You should try curling against the interfaces on the box from the box
>>>>> itself and make sure it's actually sending info back locally. With your
>>>>> config  I believe you should be able to curl local host on port 80 as well
>>>>> since you only specified a listening port.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, February 13, 2016, Mike Jones <michaeljones401 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a single ec2 instance running and would like to install and
>>>>>> configure Varnish for that aws instance
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've changed the default settings for varnish - /etc/sysconfig/varnish
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
>>>>>>              -T localhost:6082 \
>>>>>>              -b localhost:8080 \
>>>>>>              -u varnish -g varnish \
>>>>>>              -s file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,1G"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and configured httpd - /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to listen on port
>>>>>> 8080
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But when I restart both services, the webpage fails to load.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's nothing in the error_log and when I tail -f the access_log
>>>>>> nothing is logged when I refresh the page.
>>>>>> Do I need to open port 8080 too?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are there any guides on how to configure Varnish for an aws instance?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sorry I fat thumbed this on an iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>
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