Varnish as a redirector for a millions URLs

[Rangel, Raul]

Can you make a backend that takes a url, looks it up in the database and returns a 301? You could then cache the 301 in varnish. Thought tht will only work for GETs. Once you get into POST requests it's another story.

Raul

From: varnish-dev-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-dev-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Aleem B
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:41 AM
To: Poul-Henning Kamp
Cc: varnish-dev at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: Varnish as a redirector for a millions URLs

It's based on a DB lookup. Currently I am using NGINX + Redis and there are about a million URLs.

Aleem

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk<mailto:phk at phk.freebsd.dk>> wrote:
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>I currently use nginx + redis + lua module to setup redirects for close to
>a million old URLs that have been ported to a new platform.
Are the redirects based on rules ?

Ie, something like:

        /article?ID=#####  -> /#####

or is it a database lookup to figure out the mapping ?



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