We havie Plone site coming through Varnish front end cache. We'd like to give two different subdomains www.site.com and editors.site.com for this site. The latter would always be serving non-cached versions of the pages and used by the site maintainers to update the content.
What would be the simplest way to accomplish this?
Varnish 2.x - based on the default Debian template
Config below:
backend default {
.host = "127.0.0.1";
.port = "8080";
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.host ~ "(www\.)?site\.com(:[0-9]+)?$") {
set req.url = "/VirtualHostBase/http/www.site.com:80/LS/VirtualHostRoot" req.url;
set req.backend = default;
}
else if (req.http.host ~ "editors.site.com(:[0-9]+)?$") {
set req.url = "/VirtualHostBase/http/editors.site.com:80/LS/VirtualHostRoot" req.url;
set req.backend = default;
}
}
# Below is a commented-out copy of the default VCL logic. If you
# redefine any of these subroutines, the built-in logic will be
# appended to your code.
#
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.x-forwarded-for) {
set req.http.X-Forwarded-For =
req.http.X-Forwarded-For ", " client.ip;
} else {
set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
}
if (req.request != "GET" &&
req.request != "HEAD" &&
req.request != "PUT" &&
req.request != "POST" &&
req.request != "TRACE" &&
req.request != "OPTIONS" &&
req.request != "DELETE") {
/* Non-RFC2616 or CONNECT which is weird. */
return (pipe);
}
if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD") {
/* We only deal with GET and HEAD by default */
return (pass);
}
if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) {
/* Not cacheable by default */
return (pass);
}
return (lookup);
}
sub vcl_pipe {
# Note that only the first request to the backend will have
# X-Forwarded-For set. If you use X-Forwarded-For and want to
# have it set for all requests, make sure to have:
# set req.http.connection = "close";
# here. It is not set by default as it might break some broken web
# applications, like IIS with NTLM authentication.
return (pipe);
}
#
sub vcl_pass {
return (pass);
}
#
sub vcl_hash {
set req.hash += req.url;
if (req.http.host) {
set req.hash += req.http.host;
} else {
set req.hash += server.ip;
}
return (hash);
}
#
sub vcl_hit {
if (!obj.cacheable) {
return (pass);
}
return (deliver);
}
#
sub vcl_miss {
return (fetch);
}
#
sub vcl_fetch {
if (!beresp.cacheable) {
return (pass);
}
if (beresp.http.Set-Cookie) {
return (pass);
}
return (deliver);
}
#
sub vcl_deliver {
return (deliver);
}
#
The simplest way is to configure varnish entirely assuming www.site.com. Then add these three lines to the top of your vcl_recv.
In the bottom of your vcl_recv, you 'return (lookup)', Instead, do a:
"if host = editors.site.com, return (pass).... else return (lookup)"
Here's your config edited
Just tuck return(pass); in the editor part, all Varnish won't cache those requests then.