I can't connect to the control terminal, whatever I try.

- I installed latest varnish on Ubuntu 8.04 as per http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/ubuntu
- I followed these instructions and VCL example, http://groups.drupal.org/pantheon/mercurywiki
- I applied this little patch, http://drupal.org/node/808314
- PHP has sockets support enabled

In settings.php I put within $conf = array():

  'reverse_proxy' => TRUE,
  'reverse_proxy_addresses' => array('127.0.0.1'),

Drupal cache is set to external, on Pressflow of course.

But the varnish module status is always:

The Varnish control terminal is not responding at 127.0.0.1 on port 6082.

And in watchdog I always see:

Varnish: Authentication to server failed!
Varnish: Recieved status code 101 running "". Full response text: Unknown request. Type 'help' for more info.

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Ah... varnish installs a "secret" file in /etc/varnish/secret. And you need to past that file's content into Drupal.

Works as designed.

techgirlgeek’s picture

techgirlgeek commented

Thank you, this was just the details I needed.

jras’s picture

jras commented

Yes, and for those of you out there that are still scratching your heads, this means to capture the line inside of the "secret" file @/etc/varnish/secret, then paste that line into the "Varnish Control Key" field on the Varnish module configuration page. After this, all is made right with the world.