Don't Varnish Over the Cracks

Caching

Type

• By Role
• By User
• By Page
• Anything else

Time

• 1 second
• 1 minute
• 1 hour
• 1 day
• 1 week

Entities

Entity Cache

Commerce Entity Cache

Render Cache

Views

Time Cache

Panels

Time Cache

Redis/Memcache

Redis

Library

PhpRedis

Redis cache backend using the well performing PhpRedis PHP extension.

Predis

Redis cache backend using the standalone Predis PHP library.

settings.php

$conf['redis_client_interface'] = 'PhpRedis';

$conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/redis/redis.autoload.inc';
$conf['cache_default_class'] = 'Redis_Cache';
$conf['cache_class_cache_form'] = 'DrupalDatabaseCache';

$conf['lock_inc'] = 'sites/all/modules/redis/redis.lock.inc';
$conf['path_inc'] = 'sites/all/modules/redis/redis.path.inc';
                        

Authcache

settings.php

$conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/authcache/authcache.cache.inc';
$conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/authcache/modules/authcache_builtin/authcache_builtin.cache.inc';

$conf['authcache_builtin_cache_without_database'] = TRUE;
$conf['page_compression'] = 1;
$conf['page_cache_maximum_age'] = 600;
                        

Blocks

Menu

Disabling form-token retrieval

Administration » Configuration » System » Authcache » Form and expand the fieldset Remove form tokens.

search_form
search_block_form
search_api_page_search_form

commerce_cart_add_to_cart_form_*
                        

If you really want to:

Authcache 2 recipe: Upgrade to Varnish and ESI

Other Modules

Advanced CSS/JS Aggregation

Fast 404

Ultimate Cron

Live Demo

What could go wrong?

Network Analysis

Blackfire Analysis