I wrote earlier that I started playing around with Varnish here on my site and that post has a little snippet that strips all incoming and outgoing cookies (except the admin of course.) Today I stumbled on a problem where I had no permission to preview a post I was drafting in WordPress and they all turned 404’s when I tried to. I first thought Varnish was stripping out the preview query...
Varnish and WordPress Comment Cookies
I wrote before that I’ve been running some experiments with Varnish lately. Not that I have huge traffic here but I’ve always used my own website to test things out. As I wrote earlier, the problem with WordPress and Varnish is that WordPress relies on cookies which create cache misses on Varnish and in that previous post I shared a snippet on how to strip all incoming and outgoing...
My website is now super-fast with Varnish
My website is now super-fast with Varnish — an open source HTTP accelerator which sits on top of your HTTP servers and serves your cached pages. It didn’t take me longer than 20 minutes to get Varnish up and running on my Ubuntu VPS, and a few more minutes to set all my nginx configurations to port 8080, bringing Varnish to port 80. The problem with WordPress however, is that it...