[rt-users] nginx / varnish / apache with RT?

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:53 AM, ktm at rice.edu <ktm at rice.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 09:04:25PM +1000, Chris Herrmann wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i've been playing with an NVA setup for some lamp sites (Joomla) and the
> > scaling is looking pretty amazing... still early days but initial results
> > look very promising.
> >
> > anyway, it got me thinking to whether varnish would work with RT. I'm
> > familiar enough with it to understand the generic accelerator principle
> ...
> > but I don't see how it would work with generated content - because of RT
> > handles sessions / authentication / etc. Or is it smart enough to know
> that
> > if I visit the same ticket twice in a row and the ticket hasn't changed,
> to
> > give me cached content?
> >
> > I've tried searching for "perl varnish" and "request tracker varnish"
> type
> > pages but have only found one archive thread
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rt/users/72455 which appears
> > inconclusive - does it actually make a noticeable difference or not?
> > Internally we're using a squid proxy, and we have a small number of
> users,
> > so not sure that the static page elements being handled by varnish or
> nginx
> > would offer a huge advantage? anyway keen to hear people's experiences or
> > other thoughts on accelerating RT...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> We have tried nginx/fastCGI both with and without nginx caching the static
> content. The biggest win was just moving from Apache/mod_perl to the nginx/
> fastCGI. It made RT much more scalable and allowed us to manage its
> resource
> allocation better. I do not think that varnish would do anything except add
> complexity to the setup.
>


care to share your nginx/fascgi config ? I am seeing one in the
http://bestpractical.com/docs/rt/latest/web_deployment.html#nginx
as a start.



> Regards,
> Ken
>



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