Where is the varnish configuration file?

Question

I have just installed varnish and its ready to serve web pages.

Problem is that we are hitting open files limit.
We have already set ulimit to varnish user.

We want to find a file where we can write this configuration:

# Maximum number of open files
NFILES=131072

# Locked shared memory, default log size is 82MB + header
MEMLOCK=82000

## Configuration with VCL
#
# Listen on port 80, administration on localhost:6082, and forward to
# one content server selected by the vcl file, based on the request.  Use a
# fixed-size cache file.
#
# Note: you must replace "example.org" with the outside IP address of your server
# - this is the address at which Varnish receives incoming requests.
# $wgSquidServers in MediaWiki's LocalSettings.php will also need to list all addresses for this Varnish cache.
#
DAEMON_OPTS="-a example.org:80 \
             -T localhost:6082 \
             -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
             -u varnish -g varnish \
             -s file,/var/lib/varnish/varnish_storage.bin,4G"

qweet · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-23T22:23:20.627

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The file you're looking for is the Varnish daemon config script. You can find this (usually) in the /etc/sysconfig/varnish if you're on Redhat/RHEL, or /etc/default/varnish if you're on Debian/Ubuntu

edited Feb 23 '12 at 22:23

answered Feb 23 '12 at 22:18

qweet

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Take a look and see if you can see a varnish file in `/etc/defaults` or `/etc/sysconfig`. This appears to be the file you're looking for. – qweet Feb 23 '12 at 22:24
Found mine at `/etc/varnish` – Jon Mitten Feb 26 '15 at 23:05

score 15 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 06 '12 at 07:09

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There are two places that you will need to do varnish configuration:

/etc/default/varnish
/etc/varnish/default.vcl

edited Jun 06 '12 at 07:09

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answered Jun 06 '12 at 03:52

chen

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Second path may be different, but if, it's defined in first file, so start searching there. – gnysek Jun 24 '15 at 09:28

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 06 '14 at 05:14

This is on centos linux server

/etc/sysconfig/varnish
/etc/varnish/default.vcl

you will also have to change httpd config file to change the port if you want to put varnish in front of apache

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Source: How to install and configure Varnish with Apache on Centos 6

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 18 '12 at 20:31

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It's also worth noting that reloading the varnish config after editing clears it's cache.

answered Jul 18 '12 at 20:31

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Where is the varnish configuration file?

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