Varnish cache - How to purge/delete cache only for Home page

Question

I'm using Drupal 7 latest dev version.

I have installed Varnish and Expire modules and setup them. They are working very well but I have one problem regarding deleting cache from varnish.

The problem is how to delete varnish cache only for index(home) page and not to delete cache for other pages. I look at he varnish log and I found that whole varnish cache is deleted every time Drupal executes command

 ban req.http.host ~ www.cdm.me && req.url ~ "/"

This command is executed by varnish module or expire module and it means delete cache of home(index) page. But as I see it is deleting all cached pages in varnish.

How to fix this? How can I delete only cache for home page?

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 26 '12 at 00:23

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You should invoke other command from Drupal:

ban req.http.host ~ www.cdm.me && req.url ~ "^/$"

Cache invalidated for whole site, because regexp "/" matches all URLs

answered Nov 26 '12 at 00:23

ghloogh

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '13 at 21:57

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You could also do

ban req.http.host == www.cdm.me && ban req.url == "/"

answered Nov 08 '13 at 21:57

hernandes

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '13 at 12:58

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Will this Drupal Purge module do it for you? https://drupal.org/project/purge

answered Dec 10 '13 at 12:58

Lee Woodman

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 16 '16 at 13:09

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There is the Varnish HTTP Accelerator Integration module, which provides a very useful function varnish_purge().

Use the function to clear the varnish cache.

answered Feb 16 '16 at 13:09

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Varnish cache - How to purge/delete cache only for Home page

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