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Wordpress W3 Total Cache plugin configuration with Varnish installed

Is there any tutorial to configure the W3 Total Cache plugin in droplet/server with Varnish installed? My concerns are:

  1. Do we need the W3TC plugin if we are using Varnish? If we do then how to configure the plugin?
  2. Do we need to configure the Varnish .vcl file once or everytime we setup new Wordpress site?
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Moisey Uretsky • February 16, 2013

In my experience we’ve ran into issues trying to use both an internal wordpress plugin with an outside cache like Varnish. <br> <br>Overall you are better at selecting one and sticking with it and alot of that also depends on what other plugins and functionality you have installed on your wordpress. <br> <br>I’d recommend using WordPress Super Cache: <br>http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ <br> <br>And then reviewing system performance and making adjustments if necessary. Also if you make both changes at once and start running into issues you’ll have a harder time of figuring out which one is at fault.

Kamal Nasser • November 9, 2013

@PigGy: No, nginx does not support htaccess files. See if this helps: <a href=“https://github.com/pothi/WordPress-Nginx/blob/master/globals/wpsc.conf”>https://github.com/pothi/WordPress-Nginx/blob/master/globals/wpsc.conf</a>

birdiett • November 6, 2013

With my Nginx running Varnish, I installed WordPress Super Cache in my Wordpress and it prompted me to setup .Htaccess mod-rewrite when I enable <br>“Use mod_rewrite to serve cache files. (Recommended)” then I realize I’m not on apache. <br> <br>Is it possible to add .htaccess file to my wordpress root with Nginx running?