I'm trying to install varnish on ubuntu 16.04,
I read several article none are working. From what I read, since ubuntu 15.04, the way of configuring varnish has changed (because of systemd).
Now on I've got a real mess wich don't work :
/etc/default/varnish :
DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
-T localhost:6082 \
-f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
-S /etc/varnish/secret \
-s malloc,256m"
/etc/varnish/default.vcl (normally it points to a host pointing to 127.0.0 and port 8080, but for debuging purpose I modified it to an external domain) vcl 4.0;
# Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content server.
backend default {
.host = "www.varnish-cache.org";
.port = "80";
}
/etc/apache2/ports.conf
Listen 8080
grep -R 'ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd' /etc/
/etc/systemd/system/varnish.service:ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m
/etc/systemd/system/varnish.service.d/customexec.conf:ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/varnish.service:ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m
/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service :
GNU nano 2.5.3 Fichier : /lib/systemd/system/varnish.service
[Unit]
Description=Varnish HTTP accelerator
Documentation=https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/ man:varnishd
[Service]
Type=simple
LimitNOFILE=131072
LimitMEMLOCK=82000
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m
ExecReload=/usr/share/varnish/reload-vcl
ProtectSystem=full
ProtectHome=true
PrivateTmp=true
PrivateDevices=true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
service --status-all | grep varnish
[ - ] varnish
[ + ] varnishlog
[ + ] varnishncsa
after a
sudo service varnish stop
sudo service varnish start
The varnish service is not listening on http://127.0.0.1:80/
, before a reboot, it listend on http://127.0.0.1:6081/
but it don't work no more ... I don't know what to do more...
EDIT : after a reboot, nothing works,
if I do :
systemctl status varnish
● varnish.service - Varnish HTTP accelerator
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/varnish.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service.d
└─customexec.conf
Active: inactive (dead) since jeu. 2017-01-05 14:48:09 CET; 1s ago
Docs: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/
man:varnishd
Process: 5077 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 5077 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
janv. 05 14:48:09 xubuntu-16 systemd[1]: Started Varnish HTTP accelerator.
service --status-all | grep varnish
[ - ] varnish
[ - ] varnishlog
[ - ] varnishncsa
if I sudo : varnishd -d -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl
, then start
, everything works fine... until i quit the cli
solved thanks to @Gerald Schneider response. I post the steps I had to do :
sudo apt remove varnish
sudo apt-get purge varnish
# I manually remove the 3 files in created in /etc/systemd/system/*
sudo apt install varnish
sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/varnish.service # put the rigth conf
sudo nano /etc/varnish/default.vcl #put the rigth conf
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo service varnish restart
and everything works fine!
the magic is in the /lib/systemd/system/varnish.service
file, other online resources that I found made me make think it is elsewhere, so beware of the online (outdated) tutorials!