SSL and Varnish

[Jim Hayter]

<Sorry for the late reply, I just received a large number of old emails from the list.>

I chose nginx because it was already in use by our development staff and they recommended it.  I have no experience or knowledge of pound so can not compare the two.  That said, I've been happy with nginx.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Christian Wittwer
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:37 AM
To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
Subject: Re: SSL and Varnish

I'm facing the same question at the moment. Why do you guys recommend/use nginx?
I had a look at pound, and it looks pretty easy and lightweight for
the purpose of a ssl endpoint.
Are there any advantages/drawbacks using pound instead of nginx?

Cheers,
Christian

2010/9/7 Jim Hayter <jhayter at manta.com>:
> We run nginx to accept both SSL and non-SSL requests.  This allows me to
> have some logic to block certain requests at the nginx level and also
> for nginx to return a customized error page if varnishd is not running.
> Nginx on passes all remaining traffic to varnishd which sits in front of
> multiple web servers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org
> [mailto:varnish-misc-bounces at varnish-cache.org] On Behalf Of Rob S
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:28 AM
> To: varnish-misc at varnish-cache.org
> Subject: SSL and Varnish
>
>  If you've used SSL with varnish in production, can you share any
> wisdom on your configuration and approaches?
>
>
> We've been happily using Varnish in production for just over a year, and
>
> now want to use it for an SSL site so that we can use ESI, load
> balancing and other such facilities offered by Varnish.  I've searched
> over the Varnish website, and can't see any examples of a recommended
> SSL configuration.
> http://plone.org/documentation/kb/plone-behind-varnish-using-pound-for-s
> sl
> provides some documentation, but I suspect there are other options.
>
> I'll happily consolidate the answers into a coherent document for the
> website so that others can benefit in future.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Rob
>
>
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