xVarnish is an open source high-performance HTTP accelerator, best suitable for shared WHM servers. It allows you to set up and configure Varnish cache as a website optimizing front-end for the standard cPanel-WHM server. It also allows cPanel users to disable the caching permanently or temporarily from cPanel itself. In this tutorial, we'll walk you through to install and enable xVarnish plugin.
Install xVarnish
Installation Commands For WHM Server with CentOS 7
yum install epel-release rpm --nosignature -i https://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-4.1.el7.rpm rpm --nosignature -i https://repo.xvarnish.com/xvarnish-repository-1-8.el7.rpm yum install xvarnishInstallation Commands For WHM Server with CentOS 6
yum install epel-release rpm --nosignature -i https://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/varnish-4.1.el6.rpm rpm --nosignature -i https://repo.xvarnish.com/xvarnish-repository-1-8.el6.rpm yum install xvarnish
Activate xVarnish License
To activate the xVarnish plugin, you’ll have to register to xVarnish site with your email address. Once signed up, xVarnish license manager will immediately send you the access information. From your login, you can create a license key for any number of servers. Run the following command to activate the license key collected from your sign in at xVarnish dashboard.
/usr/local/xvarnish/bin/activate --key 5940da47-77e3-4833-94c1-1117a56f272d
Enable xVarnish
xvctl enable xvarnish xvctl enable https
Remove xVarnish
Disabling xVarnish
xvctl disable xvarnish bash /usr/local/xvarnish/bin/revert-apache.shCompletely Remove From Server
yum remove xvarnish xvarnish-vmods varnish varnish-libs rm -rI /usr/local/xvarnish
