How to setup Varnish to work with Apache and Tomcat - apache

Question

I have a Ubuntu 12.0 server running Varnish 4 on port 80 and the Apache 2.4 in 8080.
I installed Tomcat 7 running on port 8181, which runs only one Liferay site.
I would like to configure Varnish to work with Tomcat also.
How do I set this up?
My current setup is this:
/etc/default/varnish
DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
-T localhost:6082 \
-f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
-S /etc/varnish/secret \
-s malloc,256m"
/etc/varnish/default.vcl
backend default {
.host = "123.456.789.000";
.port = "8080";
.connect_timeout = 580s;
.first_byte_timeout = 580s;
.between_bytes_timeout = 580s;
}
If I point my browser to 123.456.789.000:8181 the Tomcat site works. I will set the registar with my DNS to respond to "www.mytomcatsite.com", but how can I avoid the ":8181" on the URL ?
With Apache everything works fine.
TIA.

Answer 1

From the varnish documentation:
We add a new backend.:
backend java {
.host = "127.0.0.1";
.port = "8000";
}
Now we need tell Varnish where to send the difference URL. Lets look at vcl_recv.:
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.url ~ "^/java/") {
set req.backend_hint = java;
} else {
set req.backend_hint = default;
}
}
If you want this routing to be done on the basis of virtual hosts you just need to inspect req.http.host:
sub vcl_recv {
if (req.http.host ~ "foo.com") {
set req.backend_hint = foo;
} elsif (req.http.host ~ "bar.com") {
set req.backend_hint = bar;
}
}
See:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#multiple-backends
https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/users-guide/vcl-backends.html#backends-and-virtual-hosts-in-varnish
Note: This is for Varnish 4. The VCL syntax will be slightly different for Varnish 3.