Installing Varnish from the Source Code

Software Version	Whether to Support CentOS 7.6	Whether to Support CentOS 8.1	Whether to Support openEuler 20.03 (LTS-SP1)
Varnish 6.2.0	Yes	No	Yes
Varnish 6.5.1	No	Yes	No

In the following commands, x.x.x indicates the Varnish version.

Download the Varnish source code package using the local browser.
- Varnish 6.2.0: https://varnish-cache.org/_downloads/varnish-6.2.0.tgz
- Varnish 6.5.1: https://varnish-cache.org/_downloads/varnish-6.5.1.tgz

Copy the source code to the /home directory on the server.

If the server is connected to the Internet, you can run the wget command on the server to download the source code.

          
               cd /home

          
               wget https://varnish-cache.org/_downloads/varnish-x.x.x.tgz --no-check-certificate

Go to the home directory.
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cd /home/
Decompress the source code package.
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tar -zxvf varnish-x.x.x.tgz
Go to the source code directory.
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cd /home/varnish-x.x.x/
Perform automatic compilation.
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sh autogen.sh
Check the dependency.
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./configure --prefix=/usr/local/varnish
--prefix=PATH: specifies the Varnish installation directory.
Compile and install Varnish.
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make -j60 && make install

Create a folder in the Varnish installation path for storing the configuration file.
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cd /usr/local/varnish && mkdir config

Copy the configuration file to the config directory.

        
             cp /usr/local/varnish/share/doc/varnish/example.vcl   /usr/local/varnish/config/default.vcl

Parent topic: Installing Varnish