Varnish Cache + Nginx + Wordpress, redirect loop

Question

I've been playing around with Varnish however I've encountered an issue that causes an infinite redirect loop on all my sites (Wordpress and Drupal mainly). Curl to localhost:8080 and setting the "Host" as a header outputs the correct html so it's not Nginx, however when curling to localhost (hitting varnish) the response is "301 Moved Permanently".

Any ideas?

Here's a vhost config for a site:

index index.php;
server {
        server_name www.example.com;
        rewrite ^ $scheme://example.com$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
        listen   8080;
        server_name example.com;
        access_log /var/www/logs/access.log;
        error_log /var/www/logs/error.log;
        root /var/www/example.com/public_html;
        include global/restrictions.conf;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
                if (!-e $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
                }
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi.conf;
        }
}

And the config for Varnish can be found here: https://github.com/mattiasgeniar/varnish-4.0-configuration-templates/blob/master/default.vcl except I've modified it slightly so the port is looking at 8080

Thanks

michelem michelem · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-13T15:02:45

I think you need listen 8080; into first server too:

server {
    listen   8080;
    server_name www.example.com;
    rewrite ^ $scheme://example.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

Varnish Cache + Nginx + Wordpress, redirect loop

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