Hello,

Has anybody attempted or successfully completed an implementation of both Varnish + NGINX on Centos 5 using PHP 5.3+?

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In the pursuit of ridiculous “server speed” (happiness), I decided to give this a whirl today.
Setting up Varnish was not all that hard, battled through the code a bit and emerged on the other side with a semi-working solution.
I would appreciate any tips or suggestion to fully complete and implement the solution.

Where I stand:

Working Nginx using atomic-accelerator

Varnish running but on port 6081 – what I need is nginx to connect to port 6081 instead of 8080

Nginx: http://www.2large.co.za/
see: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.2large.co.za
Server: nginx/1.0.0
X-Powered-By: PleskLin

Nginx + Varnish: http://www.2large.co.za:6081
see: http://redbot.org/?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww ... .za%3A6081
Server: nginx/1.0.0
Via: 1.1 varnish

Conf files Varnish

/etc/sysconfig/varnish

# # Default address and port to bind to
# # Blank address means all IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, otherwise specify
# # a host name, an IPv4 dotted quad, or an IPv6 address in brackets.
VARNISH_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
VARNISH_LISTEN_PORT=6081

vi /etc/varnish/default.vcl

backend default {
.host = "127.0.0.1";
.port = "80";
}

NGINX Conf

vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
resolver 127.0.0.1;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

/etc/nginx/conf.d/2large.co.za.conf

server {
listen 80;
server_name 2large.co.za http : // w w w.2large.co.za;

netstat –ntpl

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 27396/nginx.conf
tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN 4953/httpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6081 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 10448/varnishd

ps auwx | grep varnish

varnish 26641 0.0 0.0 1335776 10860 ? Sl 22:40 0:03 /usr/sbin/varnishd -P /var/run/varnish.pid -a :6081 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -T 127.0.0.1:6082 -t 120 -w 1,1000,120 -u varnish -g varnish -S /etc/varnish/secret -s file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,1G

varnishlog

15 ReqStart c 41.185.108.125 4009 1256145342
15 RxRequest c GET
15 RxURL c /images/stories/slide/5gb-hosting.png
15 RxProtocol c HTTP/1.1
15 RxHeader c Host: http : // w w w .2large.co.za:6081
15 RxHeader c User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
15 RxHeader c Accept: image/png,image/*;q=0.8,*/*;q=0.5
15 RxHeader c Accept-Language: en-gb,en;q=0.5
15 RxHeader c Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
15 RxHeader c Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
15 RxHeader c Connection: keep-alive
15 RxHeader c Referer: http : // w w w.2large.co.za:6081/
15 RxHeader c If-Modified-Since: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:46:03 GMT
15 RxHeader c Cache-Control: max-age=0
15 VCL_call c recv pass
15 VCL_call c hash
15 Hash c /images/stories/slide/5gb-hosting.png
15 Hash c http : // w w w .2large.co.za:6081
15 VCL_return c hash
15 VCL_call c pass pass
15 Backend c 13 default default
15 TTL c 1256145342 RFC 120 1309991102 0 0 0 0
15 VCL_call c fetch hit_for_pass
15 ObjProtocol c HTTP/1.1
15 ObjResponse c Not Modified
15 ObjHeader c Server: nginx/1.0.0
15 ObjHeader c Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:25:01 GMT
15 ObjHeader c Last-Modified: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:46:03 GMT
15 ObjHeader c Expires: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:25:01 GMT
15 ObjHeader c Cache-Control: max-age=2592000
15 VCL_call c deliver deliver
15 TxProtocol c HTTP/1.1
15 TxStatus c 304
15 TxResponse c Not Modified
15 TxHeader c Server: nginx/1.0.0
15 TxHeader c Last-Modified: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:46:03 GMT
15 TxHeader c Expires: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:25:01 GMT
15 TxHeader c Cache-Control: max-age=2592000
15 TxHeader c Accept-Ranges: bytes
15 TxHeader c Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:25:02 GMT
15 TxHeader c X-Varnish: 1256145342
15 TxHeader c Age: 0
15 TxHeader c Via: 1.1 varnish
15 TxHeader c Connection: keep-alive

There is what seems to be a peripheral benefit to such a configuration that makes it attract some attention but alas! it is but a waste of time.

Anything that can be done with Varnish + Nginx can be done faster and better with Nginx alone.

@dayo - any pointers on tweaking Nginx would be greatly appreciated.

Hi.

That is a bit broad as there are a host of factors to consider specific to your requirements.

However, I gave some tips in the original nginx announcements on this forum at: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3845&start=15.

This would be a reasonable point to start from as a basic "proxy all to Apache" setup although I assume this is what the accelerator already applies. I can't say for certain as I do longer use ASL, the accelerator and/or Plesk and now compile my own version of Nginx.

Also, some of my recommendations would be different today (no "Static files" location as this approach has been deprecated) etc.