Issue with varnish passing absolute url to backend

[Joseph Begumisa]

Hi,

Just installed varnish and I have an issue with varnish sending GET
requests to the backend server.  If I try to access
http://test.example.com/username, varnish sends GET /username to the
backend server running zeus web server.

The problem with this is I have a couple of rewrites on the zeus web
server that rewrite the url http://test.example.com/username to
http://test.example.com/profile/username.  So the GET request sent by
varnish does not match the rewrite rule and I get back a 404 Page Not
found error.

I can change the rewrite rule, however, is this by design or am I
missing something in my configuration?  I'd like varnish to pass the
GET request as the absolute url i.e http://test.example.com/username

I tried to keep my default.vcl configuration as simple as possible for
now before building it up.


### Custom Configuration

backend web1 {
     .host = "10.10.26.73";
     .port = "80";
}

I've run a couple of searches, gone through the faqs and
documentations but I don't seem to see anything that would point to
why this happens.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.

Best Regards,

Joseph