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In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the Varnish HTTP accelerator as a reverse proxy for an Apache web server. Varnish is a proxy server focused on HTTP caching. It's designed as an HTTP accelerator and can act as a reverse proxy for your web server.
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Varnish is indeed important caching component to speedup the website.
Varnish is nice, but isn't Varnish essentially obsolete at this point not caching https?
I have the same issue. In the tutorial you mention that the firewall must be open "ufw allow https" but that's the last mention of port 443.
I looked at the Varnish documentation and that too has no mention of HTTPS, so, is Varnish past it's due date, or is there something missing?
Varnish does not support SSL and as far as I know, it is not planned to implement it, which makes it quite useless today. Or you would have to put an https capable proxy in front of it. I recommend using nginx today, either as web server replacement or as proxy in front of an apache server.