Is there an official config for discourse that I can use?

There is not an official Varnish config for Discourse.

Not official, but there have been some stabs at it before. [image] Use HAProxy and Varnish with Discourse Sysadmins Had some downtime this afternoon and without even really planning to ended up setting up haproxy in front of my web server, which hosts a bunch …

Thanks. A bit surprised there since Discourse has official support for Fastly and that means there should be a config the team uses.

Fastly does standard origin pull, you don’t need to fuss with Varnish. We have already 2 howtos that cover this depending on your level of adventure/pain. [image] Enable a CDN for your Discourse Self-Hosting So you’d like to use a CDN to speed up worldwide acc…

Please correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you need to do invalidation when some one replies, update categories pages when new content is added etc. My understanding is that one needs to run the invalidation logic from the code to caching system. Therefore I thought Discourse should be having a varn…

[image] Quintin_Par: Please correct me if I am wrong, but don’t you need to do invalidation when some one replies, update categories pages when new content is added etc. no not really, you only have to invalidate stuff you are caching.

[image] Quintin_Par: but don’t you need to do invalidation when some one replies, update categories pages when new content is added etc. My understanding is that one needs to run the invalidation logic from the code to caching system Discourse can only use a CDN for static assets, not for con…

Ohh ooh. That’s a revelation. Huge bummer.

I don’t think what @RGJ said is correct; you can visit our hosted Fastly community at https://community.fastly.com/ which goes entirely through Fastly, content and all.

Thanks Jeff. Huge relief. Am I right in assuming that https://community.fastly.com/ ‘s varnish config is by them and not by the discourse community.

Varnish config for discourse

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elijah (Eli the Bearded) August 23, 2017, 3:03am 3

Not official, but there have been some stabs at it before.

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Varnish config for discourse

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