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Varnish with nginx for SSL termination

November 13, 2016 / Leave a Comment

I like varnish a lot. It makes crappy sites fast. But varnish won’t cache https unless you use SSL termination with nginx or hitch. Its fairly straightforward to setup nginx/hitch for SSL termination in front of varnish. However, the problem that you may encounter with SSL termination is that CMS such as wordpress will see … [Read more…]

Posted in: bits of technology, Blog Tagged: spend too long on this, thanks stackoverflow