This page holds (links to) useful VCL examples.

• The Default VCL with examples and a graphical overview of how a request goes through all the VCL hooks.
• Purging (also see the FAQ)
• Using restarts to try multiple backends
• Using directors for load balancing
• Caching even when cookies are present
• How to cache things longer on Varnish than the client
• Removing some, but not all cookies
• Enable force-refresh from clients
• Redirect using VCL

VCL Syntax

Manually maintained syntax description of VCL

• Varnish 1.1 source:branches/1.1/lib/libvcl/syntax.txt
• Varnish 1.2 source:branches/1.2/lib/libvcl/syntax.txt

Note: This document has been removed from trunk (which has a number of VclSyntaxChanges).