Varnish Configuration for WordPress

Hi there, I currently use Varnish for my WordPress blog (which is hosted in a Linode 512 machine).

This config is specially prepared for keeping things as fast as possible and secure. There are a lot of other configs around here, so take a look to the others if my config doesn't convince you!

This is my first release so if I made a mistake please mark an issue or feel free to fork and contribute!

NOTES: Currently I'm working on it (so don't use it right now! Even this documentation will change).

Features

• WordPress Admin and Login are blocked by default (You need to enable a SOCKS proxy in order to access it). See: https://calomel.org/firefox_ssh_proxy.html
• Health checks to your server in order to serve content whatever happens to your backend.
• Source code heavily commented to understand what's going on!

Stack

• WordPress (obviously)
• W3 Total Cache (for purging your Varnish cache everytime you publish something)
• Nginx
• Varnish 3.0

Installation Instructions

1.-

$ sudo aptitude install libvarnishapi-dev varnish-dbg build-essential automake libtool autoconf libpcre3-dev pkg-config python-docutils

2.-

$ sudo apt-get source varnish $ cd varnish* $ ./configure $ make

3.-

$ git clone git://github.com/varnish/libvmod-curl.git $ cd libvmod-curl $ ./autogen.sh $ ./configure VARNISHSRC=$HOME/varnish-3.0.2/ $ make $ make install

Notes

Take a look to my other repo for configuring WordPress MU and Nginx:

• WordPress Nginx