When you run a webserver behind a reverse proxy or HTTP accelerator like Squid or Varnish, the webserver access logs will display the IP of the proxy (generally 127.0.0.1) instead of the end user’s IP. This not only breaks any kind of tracking or reporting you want to run against your webserver logs, but it… Read more »
Posts Tagged: varnish
Allow Varnish to reuse its shared object
BACKGROUND: The following is a proposal I submitted to the Varnish developers in order to make it simpler to integrate Varnish (an HTTP accelerator for web sites) into production environments. fak3r uses Varnish in front of its webserver, Lighttpd, so it’s likely that the page you’re now reading was served to you not by the webserver,… Read more »










