Ini­tially, log­ging Var­nish didn’t really work that well. Var­nish, by default, doesn’t log (var­nish­ncsa can do some log­ging, but I haven’t fig­ured that out yet.) I’ve been pars­ing my logs with JAW­stats, which reads the Apache logs. How­ever, by default, … Con­tinue read­ing →

So far, we’ve got Var­nish installed and have a cor­rect default.vcl. Now let’s make sure AWStats/JAW­Stats can read them. In your default.vcl, make sure you have this stanza. Oth­er­wise, the Apache log files will only show traf­fic from your proxy server … Con­tinue read­ing →

I wasn’t able to get the var­nish logs in a for­mat awstats/jawstats could under­stand. After a LOT of googling, I’ve got­ten this to work. I added sub vcl_recv { # Add a unique header con­tain­ing the client address remove req.http.X-Forwarded-For; set … Con­tinue read­ing →

I’ve been want­ing to play around with a Web Cache/proxy in front of my web server, just to see how hard it would be and how well it would work. Ini­tially, I was going to try Squid, which is used far … Con­tinue read­ing →