varnish giving error 503

[Per Buer]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Mike Franon <kongfranon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to get varnish up and running super fast for a production
> website, we are hammered.
>
> We only want to cache one URL, that is being hammered, and pass
> everything else through, I know this is a just a simple config, but is
> there anything I am missing to get a 503?  Is it because our servers
> are being hammered that it is not even able to get pages to cache?
>

I'm guessing your clients are sending Cookie headers to Varnish and Varnish
isn't able to cache. Instead of forcing a lookup, which is a bad idea, you
should try to unset the Cookie header and let the default logic handle it.
You're already doing this with the response headers so you are half way.


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