[wp-hackers] Varnish and WordPress

[Joseph Scott]

On Aug 2, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:

> On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Demitrious S. Kelly wrote:
>
>> To the best of my knowledge varnish does not work as a content
>> accelerator with wordpress. Because of the flow of information  
>> through
>> wordpress blogs (last-in-first-out) the entire blog (or at least very
>> large chunks of it) would need to be invalidated for every
>> add/edit/delete action. Because of the mutable URI structure of
>> wordpress it difficult to generate a complete list of URI/URLs that
>> might have changed because of a given action. This, mixed with the  
>> fact
>> that (afaik) varnish does not allow wild card invalidations, only
>> specific URI/URL invalidations, makes varnish less than ideal as a
>> content accelerator for WP. We're working on a project called WPCP  
>> which
>> should alleviate this problem for very large shops for whom wp- 
>> cache is
>> too unruly. For now, wp-cache is still your safest bet.
>
>
> Purging (invalidation) is one of the nice features of Varnish.  The  
> FAQ (http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/wiki/FAQ) shows how to purge  
> using the command line tool and via HTTP.  They use regexs so you  
> can purge as much or as little of the cache as you want.

As Demitrious is sure to mention in a minute, the wild card  
invalidation doesn't currently work via HTTP.

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Joseph Scott
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