<Sorry for the late reply, I just received a large number of old emails from the list.>
I chose nginx because it was already in use by our development staff and they recommended it. I have no experience or knowledge of pound so can not compare the two. That said, I've been happy with nginx. Jim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Wittwer Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 9:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SSL and Varnish I'm facing the same question at the moment. Why do you guys recommend/use nginx? I had a look at pound, and it looks pretty easy and lightweight for the purpose of a ssl endpoint. Are there any advantages/drawbacks using pound instead of nginx? Cheers, Christian 2010/9/7 Jim Hayter <[email protected]>: > We run nginx to accept both SSL and non-SSL requests. This allows me to > have some logic to block certain requests at the nginx level and also > for nginx to return a customized error page if varnishd is not running. > Nginx on passes all remaining traffic to varnishd which sits in front of > multiple web servers. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob S > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 7:28 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SSL and Varnish > > If you've used SSL with varnish in production, can you share any > wisdom on your configuration and approaches? > > > We've been happily using Varnish in production for just over a year, and > > now want to use it for an SSL site so that we can use ESI, load > balancing and other such facilities offered by Varnish. I've searched > over the Varnish website, and can't see any examples of a recommended > SSL configuration. > http://plone.org/documentation/kb/plone-behind-varnish-using-pound-for-s > sl > provides some documentation, but I suspect there are other options. > > I'll happily consolidate the answers into a coherent document for the > website so that others can benefit in future. > > > Thanks, > > > Rob > > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > > _______________________________________________ > varnish-misc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc > _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.varnish-cache.org/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
