I am scratching my head trying to figure out what is wrong with the syntax in my .vcl file. I keep getting the error:
Symbol not found: 'req.method' (expected type BOOL):
('input' Line 13 Pos 9)
if (req.method == "PURGE") {
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Running VCC-compiler failed, exit 1
I am following along in this tutorial https://www.varnish-software.com/blog/step-step-speed-wordpress-varnish-software
Can anyone spot what I did wrong?
This is the file in its entirety:
# This is a basic VCL configuration file for varnish. See the vcl(7)
# man page for details on VCL syntax and semantics.
#
# Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content
# server.
#
backend default {
.host = "127.0.0.1";
.port = "8080";
}
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.method == "PURGE") {
if (req.http.X-Purge-Method == "regex") {
ban("req.url ~ " + req.url + " && req.http.host ~ " + req.http.host);
return (synth(200, "Banned."));
} else {
return (purge);
}
}
if (req.url ~ "wp-admin|wp-login") {
return (pass);
}
set req.http.cookie = regsuball(req.http.cookie, "wp-settings-d+=[^;]+(; )?", "");
set req.http.cookie = regsuball(req.http.cookie, "wp-settings-time-d+=[^;]+(; )?", "");
set req.http.cookie = regsuball(req.http.cookie, "wordpress_test_cookie=[^;]+(; )?", "");
if (req.http.cookie == "") {
unset req.http.cookie;
}
}
sub vcl_backend_response {
if (beresp.ttl == 120s) {
set beresp.ttl = 1h;
}
}
#
# Below is a commented-out copy of the default VCL logic. If you
# redefine any of these subroutines, the built-in logic will be
# appended to your code.
# sub vcl_recv {
# if (req.restarts == 0) {
# if (req.http.x-forwarded-for) {
# set req.http.X-Forwarded-For =
# req.http.X-Forwarded-For + ", " + client.ip;
# } else {
# set req.http.X-Forwarded-For = client.ip;
# }
# }
# if (req.request != "GET" &&
# req.request != "HEAD" &&
# req.request != "PUT" &&
# req.request != "POST" &&
# req.request != "TRACE" &&
# req.request != "OPTIONS" &&
# req.request != "DELETE") {
# /* Non-RFC2616 or CONNECT which is weird. */
# return (pipe);
# }
# if (req.request != "GET" && req.request != "HEAD") {
# /* We only deal with GET and HEAD by default */
# return (pass);
# }
# if (req.http.Authorization || req.http.Cookie) {
# /* Not cacheable by default */
# return (pass);
# }
# return (lookup);
# }
#
# sub vcl_pipe {
# # Note that only the first request to the backend will have
# # X-Forwarded-For set. If you use X-Forwarded-For and want to
# # have it set for all requests, make sure to have:
# # set bereq.http.connection = "close";
# # here. It is not set by default as it might break some broken web
# # applications, like IIS with NTLM authentication.
# return (pipe);
# }
#
# sub vcl_pass {
# return (pass);
# }
#
# sub vcl_hash {
# hash_data(req.url);
# if (req.http.host) {
# hash_data(req.http.host);
# } else {
# hash_data(server.ip);
# }
# return (hash);
# }
#
# sub vcl_hit {
# return (deliver);
# }
#
# sub vcl_miss {
# return (fetch);
# }
#
# sub vcl_fetch {
# if (beresp.ttl <= 0s ||
# beresp.http.Set-Cookie ||
# beresp.http.Vary == "*") {
# /*
# * Mark as "Hit-For-Pass" for the next 2 minutes
# */
# set beresp.ttl = 120 s;
# return (hit_for_pass);
# }
# return (deliver);
# }
#
# sub vcl_deliver {
# return (deliver);
# }
#
# sub vcl_error {
# set obj.http.Content-Type = "text/html; charset=utf-8";
# set obj.http.Retry-After = "5";
# synthetic {"
# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
# <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
# "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
# <html>
# <head>
# <title>"} + obj.status + " " + obj.response + {"</title>
# </head>
# <body>
# <h1>Error "} + obj.status + " " + obj.response + {"</h1>
# <p>"} + obj.response + {"</p>
# <h3>Guru Meditation:</h3>
# <p>XID: "} + req.xid + {"</p>
# <hr>
# <p>Varnish cache server</p>
# </body>
# </html>
# "};
# return (deliver);
# }
#
# sub vcl_init {
# return (ok);
# }
#
# sub vcl_fini {
# return (ok);
# }
If you are using varnish 3.x rather than 4.x: Replace
req.methodwithreq.request