best configuration for varnish and multiple IPs and vhosts?

[Chris Hecker]

Cool, thanks.  Is there any issue with getting good logs per-site?

Chris



Martin Boer wrote:
> We've been using option nr.1 for over half a year now.
> It works fine.
> 
> The reason we do it this way is that for all of our HTTP sites we have a 
> HTTPS one as well.
> Pound handles the HTTPS sites of things and Varnish does the HTTP part.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> Caunter, Stefan wrote:
>>
>> One varnish on one IP, that knows about all of the apache vhosts. You 
>> can run apache on 127.0.0.1 if you like. Varnish must answer 
>> externally for these websites.
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>> Subject: best configuration for varnish and multiple IPs and vhosts?
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>>
>> I searched around for an answer to this, but wasn't able to find
>> anything comprehensive, so I'll ask here.  I'm a total newbie at this
>> stuff, so please let me know if I missed some obvious link.
>>
>> I have a single webserver with 5 IP addresses.  Each IP has at least one
>> apache-based site on it, and sometimes there are multiple on a single IP
>> via NameVirtualHost.  None of the sites share any content.
>>
>> What is the best varnish setup for this?  It seems there are multiple
>> options:
>>
>> 1.  Have a single varnishd listen on all the IPs and run them all
>> through a single apache port with name virtual hosts, so it's one big 
>> cache?
>>
>> 2.  Multiple varnish daemons, one per IP, apache listening on multiple
>> ports, one per IP for the back end?
>>
>> 3.  Something else entirely?
>>
>> I don't have a ton of memory, if that matters.  I need to use a cache
>> mostly to handle spikes from being reddited and whatnot, the normal
>> daily load is fine for the server.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
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