Mailing List Archive: Varnish the poor mans reverse proxy?

Varnish the poor mans reverse proxy?

Jun 4, 2007, 5:39 PM

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Is it possible to use varnish as a fake layer 7 load balancer by redirecting
static content (e.g. .png, .jpg, etc) to a fast static server and dynamic to
another?

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Varnish the poor mans reverse proxy? [ In reply to ]

des at linpro

Jun 5, 2007, 12:57 AM

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Nathan McSween <nwmcsween at gmail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to use varnish as a fake layer 7 load balancer by redirecting
> static content (e.g. .png, .jpg, etc) to a fast static server and dynamic to
> another?

Yes.

I hope you meant to write "the poor man's load balancer", because
there's nothing second-rate about Varnish's abilities as a reverse
proxy...

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav
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Linpro AS - www.linpro.no

Varnish the poor mans reverse proxy? [ In reply to ]

phk at phk

Jun 5, 2007, 12:58 AM

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In message <000301c7a709$fbaafda0$6600a8c0 at octane>, Nathan McSween writes:

>Is it possible to use varnish as a fake layer 7 load balancer by redirecting
>static content (e.g. .png, .jpg, etc) to a fast static server and dynamic to
>another?

Yes.

Declare two backends in your VCL program and select the appropriate
one in vcl_miss{}

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