How to install Varnish cache 5.1 on CentOS 7

Next start and enable the HTTPD services by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# systemctl start httpd
[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# systemctl enable httpd

Update the system firewall rules to permit the HTTP service.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=http
Success

After adding the rule, reload the firewall by running the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# firewall-cmd --reload
Success

Now install the epel repository and press y to continue the installation procedure.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#  yum install -y epel-release
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Installed:
  epel-release.noarch 0:7-9                                                    
Complete!

The epel repository is installed in the target system. Now install the required dependency packages and execute the following command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# yum install autoconf automake jemalloc-devel libedit-devel libtool ncurses-devel pcre-devel pkgconfig python-docutils python-sphinx graphviz -y
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epel/x86_64/metalink                                     | 6.2 kB     00:00    
epel                                                     | 4.3 kB     00:00    
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Dependency Updated:
  glibc.x86_64 0:2.17-157.el7_3.5     glibc-common.x86_64 0:2.17-157.el7_3.5   
  libgcc.x86_64 0:4.8.5-11.el7        libgomp.x86_64 0:4.8.5-11.el7            
  pcre.x86_64 0:8.32-15.el7_2.1     

Complete!

The packages are installed in the target system. Next download the Varnish package by running the wget command followed by the download link.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# wget https://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/varnish-5.1.2.tar.gz
--2017-08-03 23:09:18--  https://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/varnish-5.1.2.tar.gz
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2017-08-03 23:10:12 (47.5 KB/s) - ‘ varnish-5.1.2.tar.gz’  saved [2597817/2597817]

Extract the downloaded varnish package using tar command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]#  tar -zxvf varnish-5.1.2.tar.gz
varnish-5.1.2/
varnish-5.1.2/aclocal.m4
varnish-5.1.2/autogen.sh
varnish-5.1.2/varnishapi-uninstalled.pc.in
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varnish-5.1.2/lib/libvmod_directors/fall_back.c
varnish-5.1.2/lib/libvmod_directors/shard_hash.h

Enter into the extracted varnish directory by executing the cd command.

[root@linuxhelp Desktop]# cd varnish-5.1.2/
[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]#

List the files in the extracted directory by running the ls command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# ls
aclocal.m4   configure     lib          README.Packaging
autogen.sh   configure.ac  LICENSE      README.rst
bin          doc           m4           varnishapi.pc.in
build-aux    etc           Makefile.am  varnishapi-uninstalled.pc.in
ChangeLog    include       Makefile.in  varnish-legacy.m4
config.h.in  INSTALL       man          varnish.m4

Next run the autogen.sh command to generate the automatic configuration.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# sh autogen.sh
+ libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux' .
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+ autoconf
You have new mail in /var/mail/root

Run the configuration process by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# sh configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing mkdir commands

Compile the package using make command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2' 
Making all in include
make[2]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2/include' 
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make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2' 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2' 

Next install the varnish package using make install command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# make install
Making install in include
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2/include' 
make  install-am
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/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 varnishapi.pc ' /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig' 
make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2' 
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/varnish-5.1.2' 

The installation of the Varnish is completed. To check the version of the Varnish, run the following command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# varnishd -V
varnishd (varnish-5.1.2 revision 6ece695)
Copyright (c) 2006 Verdens Gang AS
Copyright (c) 2006-2015 Varnish Software AS

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# sed -i " s/Listen 80/Listen 8080/"  /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Now restart the HTTPD service by running the following command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]#  systemctl restart httpd

To start the varnish daemon manually by executing the following command.

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# /usr/local/sbin/varnishd -a :80 -b localhost:8080
Debug: Platform: Linux,3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64,x86_64,-jnone,-smalloc,-smalloc,-hcritbit
Debug: Child (13758) Started

[root@linuxhelp varnish-5.1.2]# curl -I http://localhost
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2017 17:52:38 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS)
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Via: 1.1 varnish (Varnish/5.1)
Connection: keep-alive