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Varnish Commands
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Local

atom /usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/varnishd /usr/local/bin/varnishd

Runs

/usr/local/sbin/varnishd -f /usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl -a 127.0.0.1:8000 -T 127.0.0.1:3001 -s file,/tmp,500M

/usr/local/sbin/varnishd -a 127.0.0.1:8000 -b 127.0.0.1:3000 -s file,/tmp,500M

Console

varnishncsa
varnishadm

varnishhist:  a histogram that shows the time taken for the requests processing.
varnishlog:   it allows us to see all the requests made to the web backend server.
varnishsizes: it performs the same task as “varnishhist” but showing the size of the objects.
varnishstat:  it shows many contents on cache hits, resource consumption, etc..
varnishtop:   grouped list with the most usual entries from different logs.

Logging request

varnishlog -i BereqMethod,BereqURL,BereqHeader,BerespStatus,BerespHeader,reqMethod,reqURL,reqHeader,respStatus,respHeader,TTL,VCL_call,VCL_return,RespHeader

Load new VCL version

vcl.load v2 /usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl
vcl.use v2
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