Example Varnish 4.0 Configuration

default.vlc

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# This is an example VCL file for Varnish 4.0.				#
# From: https://gist.github.com/davidthingsaker/6b0997b641fdd370a395    #
# LICENSE: If this could help you in any way, you are obliged to use it	#
# for free with no limitations. 					#
#########################################################################


# Marker to tell the VCL compiler that this VCL has been adapted to the
# new 4.0 format.
vcl 4.0;

import std;

# Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content server.
backend default {
    .host = "127.0.0.1";
    .port = "8080";
}

sub vcl_recv {
    # Happens before we check if we have this in cache already.
    #
    # Typically you clean up the request here, removing cookies you don't need,
    # rewriting the request, etc.

	# Properly handle different encoding types
	if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
	  	if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg|swf|woff)$") {
	    		# No point in compressing these
	    		unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
	  	} elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
	    		set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
	  	} elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
	    		set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
	  	} else {
	    		# unknown algorithm (aka crappy browser)
			unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
	 	}
	}

	# Cache files with these extensions
	if (req.url ~ "\.(js|css|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg|swf|woff)$") {
		unset req.http.cookie;
		return (hash);
	}	

	# Dont cache anything thats on the blog page or thats a POST request
	if (req.url ~ "^/blog" || req.method == "POST") {   
    		return (pass);
	}

	# This is Laravel specific, we have session-monster which sets a no-session header if we dont really need the set session cookie. 
	# Check for this and unset the cookies if not required
	# Except if its a POST request
	if (req.http.X-No-Session ~ "yeah" && req.method != "POST") {  
     		unset req.http.cookie;  
	}  

	return (hash);
}

sub vcl_backend_response {
    # Happens after we have read the response headers from the backend.
    #
    # Here you clean the response headers, removing silly Set-Cookie headers
    # and other mistakes your backend does.

	# This is how long Varnish will cache content. Set at top for visibility.
	set beresp.ttl = 1d;

	if ((bereq.method == "GET" && bereq.url ~ "\.(css|js|xml|gif|jpg|jpeg|swf|png|zip|ico|img|wmf|txt)$") ||
                bereq.url ~ "\.(minify).*\.(css|js).*" ||
                bereq.url ~ "\.(css|js|xml|gif|jpg|jpeg|swf|png|zip|ico|img|wmf|txt)\?ver") {
                unset beresp.http.Set-Cookie;
                set beresp.ttl = 5d;
        }

	# Unset all cache control headers bar Age.
	unset beresp.http.etag;
	unset beresp.http.Cache-Control;
        unset beresp.http.Pragma;

	# Unset headers we never want someone to see on the front end
 	unset beresp.http.Server;
        unset beresp.http.X-Powered-By;

        # Set how long the client should keep the item by default
        set beresp.http.cache-control = "max-age = 300";

        # Set how long the client should keep the item by default
        set beresp.http.cache-control = "max-age = 300";

        # Override browsers to keep styling and dynamics for longer
        if (bereq.url ~ ".minify.*\.(css|js).*") { set beresp.http.cache-control = "max-age = 604800"; }
        if (bereq.url ~ "\.(css|js).*") { set beresp.http.cache-control = "max-age = 604800"; }

        # Override the browsers to cache longer for images than for main content        
        if (bereq.url ~ ".(xml|gif|jpg|jpeg|swf|css|js|png|zip|ico|img|wmf|txt)$") {
                set beresp.http.cache-control = "max-age = 604800";
        }

	# We're done here, send the data to the browser
	return (deliver);
}


sub vcl_deliver {
    # Happens when we have all the pieces we need, and are about to send the
    # response to the client.
    #
    # You can do accounting or modifying the final object here.
	
	# Lets not tell the world we are using Varnish in the same principle we set server_tokens off in Nginx
	unset resp.http.Via;  
   	unset resp.http.X-Varnish;  
}

Great setup. Thanks!

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