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Install varnish on cPanel
This post helps you to install Varnish on cPanel server. Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configures it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 – 1000x, depending on your architecture.
How to install varnish cache on cPanel
Step 1
First, you need to update the Apache non-SSL IP/port to any port other than 80. Here I am using a custom port 8080. To change the Apache non-SSL IP/port to 8080, please go to WHM -> Tweak Settings -> Apache non-SSL IP/port. OR
If you are working on a no-control panel server, edit the Apache configuration file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and search for below line.
then change it to the following and restart Apache.
Step 2
Once the Apache default port has been changed, we can go ahead and install several dependency packages using EPEL repository.
Step 3
Add official Varnish Cache repository by creating a file named varnishcache_varnish41.repo
Then add the following into it.
For CentOS 7
For CentOS 6
This post helps you to install Varnish on cPanel server. Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You install it in front of any server that speaks HTTP and configures it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is really, really fast. It typically speeds up delivery with a factor of 300 – 1000x, depending on your architecture.
How to install varnish cache on cPanel
Step 1
First, you need to update the Apache non-SSL IP/port to any port other than 80. Here I am using a custom port 8080. To change the Apache non-SSL IP/port to 8080, please go to WHM -> Tweak Settings -> Apache non-SSL IP/port. OR
If you are working on a no-control panel server, edit the Apache configuration file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf) and search for below line.
Code:
Listen 80
then change it to the following and restart Apache.
Code:
Listen 8080
Once the Apache default port has been changed, we can go ahead and install several dependency packages using EPEL repository.
Code:
yum install epel-release yum install pygpgme yum-utils
Add official Varnish Cache repository by creating a file named varnishcache_varnish41.repo
Code:
vim /etc/yum.repos.d/varnishcache_varnish41.repo
For CentOS 7
Code:
[varnishcache_varnish41] name=varnishcache_varnish41 baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/el/7/$basearch repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/gpgkey sslverify=1 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt metadata_expire=300 [varnishcache_varnish41-source] name=varnishcache_varnish41-source baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/el/7/SRPMS repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/gpgkey sslverify=1 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt metadata_expire=300
For CentOS 6
Code:
[varnishcache_varnish41] name=varnishcache_varnish41 baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/el/6/$basearch repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/gpgkey sslverify=1 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt metadata_expire=300 [varnishcache_varnish41-source] name=varnishcache_varnish41-source baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/el/6/SRPMS repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache/varnish41/gpgkey sslverify=1 sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt metadata_expire=300