Varnish 4.0 Configuration for Wordpress (Beware - Needs more testing) (this file has moved to https://github.com/Frojd/Manual)

default.vcl

#
# This is an example VCL file for Varnish.
#
# It does not do anything by default, delegating control to the
# builtin VCL. The builtin VCL is called when there is no explicit
# return statement.
#
# See the VCL chapters in the Users Guide at https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/
# and http://varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamples for more examples.

# Update for work with Varnish 4


# Marker to tell the VCL compiler that this VCL has been adapted to the
# new 4.0 format.
vcl 4.0;

# Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content server.
backend default {
    .host = "127.0.0.1";
    .port = "8080";
    .connect_timeout = 600s;
    .first_byte_timeout = 600s;
    .between_bytes_timeout = 600s;
    .max_connections = 800;
}

# Only allow purging from specific IPs
acl purge {
    "localhost";
    "127.0.0.1";
}

# This function is used when a request is send by a HTTP client (Browser)
sub vcl_recv {
    # Normalize the header, remove the port (in case you're testing this on various TCP ports)
    set req.http.Host = regsub(req.http.Host, ":[0-9]+", "");

    # Allow purging from ACL
    if (req.method == "PURGE") {
        # If not allowed then a error 405 is returned
        if (!client.ip ~ purge) {
            return(synth(405, "This IP is not allowed to send PURGE requests."));
        }

        # If allowed, do a cache_lookup -> vlc_hit() or vlc_miss()
        return (purge);
    }

    # set standard proxied ip header for getting original remote address
    if (req.http.X-Forwarded-For) {
        set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = req.http.X-Forwarded-For;
    } else {
        set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
    }

    # Post requests will not be cached
    if (req.http.Authorization || req.method == "POST") {
        return (pass);
    }

    # --- Wordpress specific configuration

    # Do not cache the RSS feed
    if (req.url ~ "/feed") {
        return (pass);
    }

    # Blitz hack
    if (req.url ~ "/mu-.*") {
        return (pass);
    }


    # Do not cache the admin and login pages
    if (req.url ~ "/wp-(login|admin)") {
        return (pass);
    }

    # don't cache search results
    if (req.url ~ "\?s="){
        return (pass);
    }

    # Remove the "has_js" cookie
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "has_js=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Remove any Google Analytics based cookies
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__utm.=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Remove the Quant Capital cookies (added by some plugin, all __qca)
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "__qc.=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Remove the wp-settings-1 cookie
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wp-settings-1=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Remove the wp-settings-time-1 cookie
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wp-settings-time-1=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Remove the wp test cookie
    set req.http.Cookie = regsuball(req.http.Cookie, "wordpress_test_cookie=[^;]+(; )?", "");

    # Are there cookies left with only spaces or that are empty?
    if (req.http.cookie ~ "^ *$") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
    }

    # Cache the following files extensions
    if (req.url ~ "\.(css|js|png|gif|jp(e)?g|swf|ico)") {
        unset req.http.cookie;
    }

    # Normalize Accept-Encoding header and compression
    # https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/vary.html
    if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
        # Do no compress compressed files...
        if (req.url ~ "\.(jpg|png|gif|gz|tgz|bz2|tbz|mp3|ogg)$") {
                unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "gzip") {
                set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "gzip";
        } elsif (req.http.Accept-Encoding ~ "deflate") {
                set req.http.Accept-Encoding = "deflate";
        } else {
            unset req.http.Accept-Encoding;
        }
    }

    # Check the cookies for wordpress-specific items
    if (req.http.Cookie ~ "wordpress_" || req.http.Cookie ~ "comment_") {
        return (pass);
    }
    if (!req.http.cookie) {
        unset req.http.cookie;
    }

    # --- End of Wordpress specific configuration

    # Do not cache HTTP authentication and HTTP Cookie
    if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) {
        # Not cacheable by default
        return (pass);
    }

    # Cache all others requests
    return (hash);
}

sub vcl_pipe {
    return (pipe);
}

sub vcl_pass {
    return (fetch);
}

# The data on which the hashing will take place
sub vcl_hash {
    hash_data(req.url);

    if (req.http.host) {
        hash_data(req.http.host);
    } else {
        hash_data(server.ip);
    }

    # If the client supports compression, keep that in a different cache
    if (req.http.Accept-Encoding) {
        hash_data(req.http.Accept-Encoding);
    }

    if (req.http.X-Forwarded-Proto) {
        hash_data(req.http.X-Forwarded-Proto);
    }

    return (lookup);
}

# This function is used when a request is sent by our backend (Nginx server)
sub vcl_backend_response {
    # Remove some headers we never want to see
    unset beresp.http.Server;
    unset beresp.http.X-Powered-By;

    # For static content strip all backend cookies
    if (bereq.url ~ "\.(css|js|png|gif|jp(e?)g)|swf|ico") {
        unset beresp.http.cookie;
    }

    # Only allow cookies to be set if we're in admin area
    if (beresp.http.Set-Cookie && bereq.url !~ "^/wp-(login|admin)") {
        unset beresp.http.Set-Cookie;
    }

    # don't cache response to posted requests or those with basic auth
    if (bereq.method == "POST" || bereq.http.Authorization) {
        set beresp.uncacheable = true;
        set beresp.ttl = 120s;
        return (deliver);
    }

    # don't cache search results
    if (bereq.url ~ "\?s="){
        set beresp.uncacheable = true;
        set beresp.ttl = 120s;
        return (deliver);
    }

    # only cache status ok
    if ( beresp.status != 200 ) {
        set beresp.uncacheable = true;
                set beresp.ttl = 120s;
                return (deliver);
    }

    # A TTL of 24h
    set beresp.ttl = 24h;
    # Define the default grace period to serve cached content
    set beresp.grace = 30s;

    return (deliver);
}

# The routine when we deliver the HTTP request to the user
# Last chance to modify headers that are sent to the client
sub vcl_deliver {
    if (obj.hits > 0) {
        set resp.http.X-Cache = "HIT";
    } else {
        set resp.http.X-Cache = "MISS";
    }

    # Please note that obj.hits behaviour changed in 4.0, now it counts per objecthead, not per object
    # and obj.hits may not be reset in some cases where bans are in use. See bug 1492 for details.
    # So take hits with a grain of salt
    set resp.http.X-Cache-Hits = obj.hits;

    # Remove some headers: PHP version
    unset resp.http.X-Powered-By;

    # Remove some headers: Apache version & OS
    unset resp.http.Server;

    # Remove some heanders: Varnish
    unset resp.http.Via;
    unset resp.http.X-Varnish;

    return (deliver);
}

sub vcl_init {
    return (ok);
}

sub vcl_fini {
    return (ok);
}