Varnish Broke My Logs
Posted: June 7, 2009 | By: TJ | In Technology | One comment
After setting up Varnish as a reverse proxy, I was really impressed with the results. A few kinks came up however after I implemented Varnish with Lighttpd. One major problem was that all remote requests logged in my log files were from 127.0.0.1. This isn’t very helpful. One way around this is to define the accesslog.format in the lighttpd.conf file so that remote IP addresses are not shown as localhost. Here is the snip from my lighttpd.conf:
accesslog.format = "%{X-Forwarded-For}i %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b /\"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
Before force reloading the new configuration, test it first by running:
$ lighttpd -t -f /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
If the syntax checks out, reload Lighttpd:
$ /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
Now you can check your access logs and it should be showing the IP addresses correctly:
$ tail -f /var/log/lighttpd/access.log
