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Bram z

Reputation: 725

Varnish ignores settings in /etc/default/varnish

Varnish 4.1.1 completely ignores settings in the /etc/default/varnish file on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I'm looking for a solution.

Result of /bin/systemctl status varnish.service

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● varnish.service - Varnish HTTP accelerator
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2017-01-09 01:24:09 UTC; 15h ago
     Docs: https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/4.1/
           man:varnishd
 Main PID: 9470 (varnishd)
    Tasks: 218
   Memory: 67.5M
      CPU: 45.584s
   CGroup: /system.slice/varnish.service
           ├─9470 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret
           └─9483 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 3235

Answers (3)

julien
julien

Reputation: 676

On ubuntu 19.04 :

sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/varnish.service (change the port)

sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl restart varnish && sudo systemctl status varnish

curl localhost

Upvotes: 3

David Gerard
David Gerard

Reputation: 170

This is, apparently, intentional behaviour in upstream Debian:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=749272

/etc/default/varnish is used by /etc/init.d/varnish exclusively on purpose.

"If you want to use /etc/default/varnish on your own, you can override /lib/systemd/system/varnish.service in /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service, but I'll recommend you just write the wanted commandline options in /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service, instead of reading /etc/default/varnish "

varnish.service is in .INI format. This tutorial gives an example for Debian: http://deshack.net/how-to-varnish-listen-port-80-systemd/

Varnish have added in the official docs:

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/tutorial/putting_varnish_on_port_80.html#debian-v8-ubuntu-v15-04

e.g. the varnish.service on the Varnish I've just set up on 16.04 has this line (the box is called cache1):

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :80 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -s file,/var/lib/varnish/cache1/varnish_storage.bin,85G -n cache1

Once you've changed this do not forget to reload systemd:

systemctl daemon-reload

Then restart Varnish. Check your results with /bin/systemctl status varnish.service .

tl;dr you need to put your config in both places.

Upvotes: 3

Mostafa Hussein
Mostafa Hussein

Reputation: 11960

By default Varnish will try to load the default.vcl which is located at this path /etc/varnish/default.vcl as you see in here:

CGroup: /system.slice/varnish.service
           ├─9470 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret
           └─9483 /usr/sbin/varnishd -j unix,user=vcache -F -a :6081 -T localhost:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret

if you would like to load another file which will be located at another path then you need to open this file /etc/varnish/varnish.params and modify the value of this line:

# Main configuration file. You probably want to change it.                       
VARNISH_VCL_CONF=/etc/varnish/default.vcl

This works with Varnish 4+

Upvotes: 1

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