QUICK-START GUIDE It's two in the morning and someone posted a link to your website on slashdot. Don't panic, it takes only a minute to set up Varnish in front of your web server: 1) Install Varnish 2) Reconfigure your web server to listen on localhost:8080 3) echo 'varnishd_enable="YES"' >>/etc/rc.conf 4) %%PREFIX%%/etc/rc.d/varnishd start Refer to the documentation for more advanced configuration. NOTE TO USERS UPGRADING FROM AN OLDER VERSION OF VARNISH: Several rc variables have been renamed and / or have new default values. Refer to the comments in the rc.d scripts for a detailed description of these variables.