I'm not great with this stuff but I got it working thanks to the community. I thought I should share. Please excuse me if this is not the right place to post this.

This is working on my Pressfow 6.x site with Varnish 3.


backend default {
  .host = "127.0.0.1";
  .port = "8080";
  .connect_timeout = 600s;
  .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
  .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
}


sub vcl_recv {
  # Add a unique header containing the client address
  remove req.http.X-Forwarded-For;
  set    req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
}


acl purge {
        "localhost";
}

sub vcl_recv {
        # allow PURGE from localhost
        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
                if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
                        error 405 "Not allowed.";
                }
                return (lookup);
        }
}

sub vcl_hit {
        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
                purge;
                error 200 "Purged.";
        }
}

sub vcl_miss {
        if (req.request == "PURGE") {
                purge;
                error 200 "Purged.";
        }
}


sub vcl_recv {
# Either the admin pages or the login
if (req.url ~ "/admin/?") {
        # Don't cache, pass to backend
        return (pass);
}


#for anonymous search and poll votes
if (req.request ~ "POST") {
  return (pass);
}


# Remove the "has_js" cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "has_js=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the "Drupal.toolbar.collapsed" cookie
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "Drupal.toolbar.collapsed=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove any Google Analytics based cookies
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__utm.=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Remove the Quant Capital cookies (added by some plugin, all __qca)
set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__qc.=[^;]+(; )?", "");

# Are there cookies left with only spaces or that are empty?
if (req.http.cookie ~ "^ *$") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
}

# Static content unique to the theme can be cached (so no user uploaded images)
if (req.url ~ "^/themes/" && req.url ~ "\.(css|js|png|gif|jp(e)?g)") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
}
# Cache images
if (req.url ~ "^/files/" && req.url ~ "\.(css|js|png|gif|jp(e)?g)") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
}

# Normalize Accept-Encoding header (straight from the manual: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/vary.html)
if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
        if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg)$") {
                # No point in compressing these
                remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
                set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
                set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
        } else {
                # unkown algorithm
                remove req.http.Accept-Encoding;
        }
}

# Don't cache the install, update or cron files in Drupal 
if (req.url ~ "install\.php|update\.php|cron\.php") {
	return (pass);
}

# Uncomment this to trigger the vcl_error() subroutine, which will HTML output you some variables (HTTP 700 = pretty debug)
#error 700;

# Anything else left?
if (!req.http.cookie) {
        unset req.http.cookie;
}

if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) {
  # Not cacheable by default
  return (pass);
}

# Try a cache-lookup
return (lookup);

}


sub vcl_fetch {

# For static content related to the theme, strip all backend cookies
if (req.url ~ "^/themes/" && req.url ~ "\.(css|js|png|gif|jp(e?)g)") {
	unset beresp.http.cookie;
}

# A TTL of 15 minutes
	set beresp.ttl = 900s;
}

sub vcl_error {
    
	set obj.http.Content-Type = "text/html; charset=utf-8";
    set obj.http.Retry-After = "5";
    synthetic {"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
    <title>"} + obj.status + " " + obj.response + {"</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Error "} + obj.status + " " + obj.response + {"</h1>
    <p>"} + obj.response + {"</p>
    <h3>Guru Meditation:</h3>
    <p>XID: "} + req.xid + {"</p>
    <hr>
    <p>Varnish cache server</p>
  </body>
</html>
"};

}

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introfini commented

Just to say thanks!

misc’s picture

misc commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

As a part of a clean up of the issue queue for the varnish module I am closing tickets that had no activity for the last year, please feel free to re-open if needed.