On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:46 PM, James H Thompson <jht(a)lj.net> wrote:
I am setting up Varnish as a front end cache for a
Mediawiki 1.16
installation.
I started with the VCL configuration described here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching
Varnish was not hitting its cache for many requests due to Mediawiki
cookies being in the client request.
It sounds like you need to write an X-Vary-Options patch for Varnish. See:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/30690