xampp on windows 8 and windows 7 communicate through varnish installed on vmware
I am using xampp on windows 8 and windows 7 machines. I have wordpress MU website installed and running fine on it.
Now, I want to install Varnish. As I didn't find any Varnish Installations for Windows. I opted to install VMware -> Ubuntu -> Varnish.
How can I make the requests for localhost(xampp) to communicate through Varnish.
step by step process:
step#1
in ubuntu obtain the ip using the following command
ifconfig -a
step#2
add a entry in the windows hosts file to point the local address to the ubuntu ip obtained in step#1
192.168.220.128 mysite.local
step#3:
in varnish config file change -a to 80
step#4
in default.vcl change host to windows IP (can be obtained from windows command line using ipconfig)
step#5
restart varnish and you are all set to go...