Varnish Installation

This section covers installation prerequisites, a step-by-step installation procedure, how and where to get help, and how to report bugs. It also contains a set of platform specific notes to aid you when installing Varnish on certain platforms.

• Prerequisites
• Installing Varnish
  • Source or packages?
  • FreeBSD
  • Red Hat / CentOS
  • Debian/Ubuntu
• Compiling Varnish from source
  • Build dependencies on Debian / Ubuntu
  • Build dependencies on Red Hat / CentOS
  • Build dependencies on a SmartOS Zone
  • Building on Solaris and other Solaris-ish OSes
  • Compiling Varnish
  • Installing
• Next steps
• Getting help
  • IRC Channel
  • Mailing Lists
  • Trouble Tickets
  • Commercial Support
• Reporting bugs
  • Varnish crashes
  • Varnish goes on vacation
  • Varnish does something wrong
• Platform specific notes
  • Transparent hugepages on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6
  • OpenVZ
  • TCP keep-alive configuration