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Some useful notes and commands which will be useful for administering varnish 3.0 web caching server,
1) Find healthy and sick backends
2) Log all incoming POST requests for 10 minutes,
3) Search varnish live log based on specific domain and URL,
4) Get list of IPs from which POST requests are received for wp-login.php,
5) Hit to miss ratio based on IP address,
6) Find details of 503 error to a domain,
7) Search based on a custom VCL header,
8) Manually PURGE cache of a domain from varnish server,
read -p "Domain: " DOMAIN && read -p "URL: " URL && echo -e 'PURGE ${URL} HTTP/1.1\nHost: ${DOMAIN}\n\n' | nc localhost 80
9) Force caching a domain in varnish 3.0,
a) In VCL fetch file add(exclude requests for wp-admin),
b) In VCL recv file add,
c) Reload varnish
10) Disable caching for a domain in backend. For this purpose add the following line in ?.htaccess?,
11) Block a website. In sub-function fetch and recv add,
12) Enable hot link protection. Add the following in RECV function and reload varnish,
1) Find healthy and sick backends
Code:
varnishadm debug.health | grep Happy | less varnishadm debug.health | grep -i sick
2) Log all incoming POST requests for 10 minutes,
Code:
timeout 10 varnishlog -c -m RxRequest:POST > /tmp/POSTlog
3) Search varnish live log based on specific domain and URL,
Code:
varnishlog -c -m RxHeader:"Host: jackal.me" varnishlog -c -m RxHeader:"Host: jackal.me" -m RxURL:"/wp-admin/post-new.php"
4) Get list of IPs from which POST requests are received for wp-login.php,
Code:
varnishncsa -F %h -m RxRequest:POST -m RxUrl:wp-login.php
5) Hit to miss ratio based on IP address,
Code:
varnishncsa -F "%h %s %{Varnish:hitmiss}x"
6) Find details of 503 error to a domain,
Code:
varnishlog -c -m TxStatus:503 -m RxHeader:"Host: jackal.me"
7) Search based on a custom VCL header,
Code:
varnishlog -c -m VCL_Log:"X-JACK-SEC: wpblock" -m RxHeader:"Host: jackal.me"
8) Manually PURGE cache of a domain from varnish server,
read -p "Domain: " DOMAIN && read -p "URL: " URL && echo -e 'PURGE ${URL} HTTP/1.1\nHost: ${DOMAIN}\n\n' | nc localhost 80
9) Force caching a domain in varnish 3.0,
a) In VCL fetch file add(exclude requests for wp-admin),
Code:
if((req.http.host ~ "jackal.me" && !(req.url ~ "wp-admin"))) {
unset beresp.http.set-cookie;
unset beresp.http.Cache-Control;
unset beresp.http.Pragma;
unset beresp.http.X-Powered-By;
std.log("unsettingheader");
return(deliver);
}
Code:
if(req.http.host ~ "jackal.me" && !(req.url ~ "wp-admin")){
unset req.http.etag;
unset req.http.Cookie;
return(lookup);
}
Code:
service varnish reload
10) Disable caching for a domain in backend. For this purpose add the following line in ?.htaccess?,
Code:
Header add X-Varnish-Control "disabled"
11) Block a website. In sub-function fetch and recv add,
Code:
if(req.http.host ~ "jackal.me"){
error 403 "Website suspended. Contact support for more information";
}
12) Enable hot link protection. Add the following in RECV function and reload varnish,
Code:
if(req.http.host ~ "jackal.me" && (req.http.referer && req.http.referer !~ "^http://jackal.me/")){
error 403 "Hotlinking not allowed";
}