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The perfect Varnish configuration for Joomla, WordPress & other CMS based websites

IMPORTANT: Read this before implementing one of the configuration files below (for either Varnish 3.x or 4.x+).

USE: Replace the contents of the main Varnish configuration file located in /etc/varnish/default.vcl (root server access required - obviously) with the contents of the configuration you'll use (depending on your Varnish version) from the 2 examples provided below.

IMPORTANT: The following setup assumes a 180 sec (3 minute) cache time for cacheable content that does not have the correct cache-control HTTP headers. You can safely increase this to 300 sec (or more) for less busier sites or drop it to 60 sec or even 30 sec for high traffic sites.

This configuration requires an HTTP Header and a user cookie to identify if a user is logged in a site, in order to bypass caching overall (see how it's done for Joomla & WordPress). If your CMS provides a way to add these two requirements, then you can use this configurati

	# force HTTPS and www.
	RewriteEngine On
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (?!^www\.)^(.+)$ [OR]
	RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
	RewriteRule ^ https://www.%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]


	# alternative way
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
	RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]

	#!/bin/sh

	# Some things taken from here
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

	# Set the colours you can use
	black='\033[0;30m'
	white='\033[0;37m'
	red='\033[0;31m'
	green='\033[0;32m'