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Set Up Windows Varnish

Category: VPS Setup

Install Varnish—a caching server—on a Windows VPS—download from varnish-cache org extract to C:\varnish configure default vcl:

backend default { .host = \"127.0.0.1\"; .port = \"8080\"; }

Start via CMD:

varnishd -f default.vcl

open port:

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"Varnish\" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=80

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curl -I http://ip

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