Archive for September 26, 2010
WordPress + nginx + Varnish + Apache 2
22Lately I've been doing a lot of work with Varnish, this includes testing it within a load balanced environment, putting it behind nginx, putting it in front of Solr, the list goes on.
This blog post will hopefully give you an insight in to a simple way of combining nginx, Varnish and Apache to create a powerful WordPress environment that can really take a hammering.
I'm going to assume you already have Apache and nginx working together, if not I suggest you read my other articles on these subjects to learn how to combine them.
Installing VarnishConfiguring More >sudo apt-get install varnish
Mounting a remote filesystem using sshfs
0First we need to install sshfs.
sudo apt-get install sshfs fuse-utils
Now we make a mount point, I'm going to use a directory in my home directory for this.
mkdir ~/remote-content
And now we simply mount our remote directory to it.
sshfs user@host:/path/to/location ~/remote-content
It's as simple as that.

