Tips & Tricks

The documentation in the standard distributions includes the reference manual, user guides and tutorials, installation instructions and various other kinds of fundamental information.

This is a space for nuggets of knowledge and solutions for specific requirements, how to get your Varnish deployment to run well, how to discover the cause of a problem and so forth.

In part, this section is intended as a successor to the old wiki, which had a wide range of useful hints, but much of which was written for older versions and is now outdated.

A Tips & Tricks sections thrives from everyone’s active contribution, so please feel free to add your ideas, update the content, or to correct errors. The HowTo section will help you get started.

• VCL Snippets
  • 301/302 Redirects
• Reading the varnishlog
  • Backend fetch failures and the FetchError tag
• Migrating Varnish versions
• Versions of the VCL language
• Compiling on Alpine