Squid

chadcrew - January 27, 2008 - 14:56
Project:Boost
Version:5.x-1.x-dev
Component:Apache integration
Category:support request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:active
Description

Hi,

Thanks for the great module.

I was wondering if there would be a problem with putting a Squid reverse proxy cache in front of apache when using Boost. I tried it out and the performance benefit seemed to be huge - about 4x the number of requests with apache alone and very little memory usage under load. Could this cause any problems though? I will keep investigating and report back, but thought I would see if you had any insights.

Thanks,
Chad

#1

firebus - February 21, 2008 - 02:23

works for me with no issues.

note that squid respects the cache headers when determining what to cache, and the cache headers in the default boost config/htaccess is very very bad

#2

chadcrew - March 7, 2008 - 17:40

Thanks for your reply. I played around with it for a while and it seemed to work pretty well. I don't need it on the production server yet, so I can't comment on that. What about the boost config is bad for cache headers?

Best,
Chad

#3

firebus - March 7, 2008 - 17:44

see http://drupal.org/node/185075

the .htaccess that currently ships with boost will disable client side caching for all images, css files, javascript etc - all things you'd really like squid to cache.

#4

asb - May 2, 2008 - 14:37

Hi,

That sounds most interesting!

Would anyone care to share his/her experiences in more detail, especially the Squid configuration (or have I missed another posting regarding Drupal + Squid + Boost).

Thanks & greetings, -asb

 
 

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