# Nginx not connecting with varnish **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-not-connecting-with-varnish/221031 "2012-06-28T00:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nginx-not-connecting-with-varnish/221031/1 "2012-06-28T00:59:39Z")
I get this varnish error “FetchError no backend connection” Varnishlog: ``` 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829925 1.0 12 SessionOpen c 79.124.74.11 3063 :80 12 SessionClose c EOF 12 StatSess c 79.124.74.11 3063 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829928 1.0 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829931 1.0 12 SessionOpen c 108.62.115.226 46211 :80 12 ReqStart c 108.62.115.226 46211 467185881 12 RxRequest c GET 12 RxURL c / 12 RxProtocol c HTTP/1.0 12 RxHeader c User-Agent: ``` Pingdom.com\_bot\_version\_1.4\_([http://www.pingdom.com/](http://www.pingdom.com/)) 12 RxHeader c Host: [www.mysite.com](http://www.mysite.com) 12 VCL\_call c recv lookup 12 VCL\_call c hash 12 Hash c / 12 Hash c [www.mysite.com](http://www.mysite.com) 12 VCL\_return c hash 12 VCL\_call c miss fetch 12 FetchError c no backend connection 12 VCL\_call c error deliver 12 VCL\_call c deliver deliver 12 TxProtocol c HTTP/1.1 12 TxStatus c 503 12 TxResponse c Service Unavailable 12 TxHeader c Server: Varnish 12 TxHeader c Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 12 TxHeader c Retry-After: 5 12 TxHeader c Content-Length: 418 12 TxHeader c Accept-Ranges: bytes 12 TxHeader c Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:45:31 GMT 12 TxHeader c X-Varnish: 467185881 12 TxHeader c Age: 1 12 TxHeader c Via: 1.1 varnish 12 TxHeader c Connection: close 12 Length c 418 12 ReqEnd c 467185881 1340829931.192433119 1340829931.891024113 0.000051022 0.698516846 0.000074035 12 SessionClose c error 12 StatSess c 108.62.115.226 46211 1 1 1 0 0 0 256 418 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829934 1.0 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829937 1.0 * * * ``` netstat -tlnp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address ``` State PID/Program name tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 3086/nginx tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1915/varnishd tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1279/sshd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:25 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 3195/sendmail: MTA: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:6082 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1914/varnishd tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:9000 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1317/php-fpm.conf) tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:3306 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 1192/mysqld tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:587 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 3195/sendmail: MTA: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.2:11211 0.0.0.0:\* LISTEN 3072/memcached tcp6 0 0 :::8080 :::\* LISTEN 3086/nginx tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::\* LISTEN 1915/varnishd tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::\* LISTEN 1279/sshd * * * /etc/nginx/site-enabled/default ``` server { listen 8080; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and ``` implied listen [::]:8080 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6 ``` root /usr/share/nginx/www; index index.html index.htm index.php; # Make site accessible from http://localhost/ server_name localhost; location / { # First attempt to serve request as file, then # as directory, then fall back to index.html try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html; } location /doc { root /usr/share; autoindex on; allow 127.0.0.2; deny all; } location /images { root /usr/share; autoindex off; } #error_page 404 /404.html; # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html # #error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; #location = /50x.html { # root /usr/share/nginx/www; #} # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80 # #location ~ \.php$ { # proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1; #} # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on ``` 127.0.0.1:9000 # location ~ .php$ { fastcgi\_pass 127.0.0.2:9000; fastcgi\_index index.php; include fastcgi\_params; } ``` # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root # concurs with nginx's one # #location ~ /\.ht { # deny all; #} } ``` * * * /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/www.mysite.com.vhost ``` server { listen 8080; server_name www.mysite.com mysite.com.net; root /var/www/www.mysite.com/web; if ($http_host != "www.mysite.com") { rewrite ^ http://www.mysite.com$request_uri ``` permanent; } index index.php index.html; location = /favicon.ico { log\_not\_found off; access\_log off; } location = /robots.txt { allow all; log\_not\_found off; access\_log off; } # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS\_Store (Mac). location ~ /. { deny all; access\_log off; log\_not\_found off; } location / { try\_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } # Add trailing slash to _/wp-admin requests. rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent; location ~_ .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ { expires max; log\_not\_found off; } location ~ .php$ { try\_files $uri =404; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi\_params; fastcgi\_pass 127.0.0.2:9000; fastcgi\_param SCRIPT\_FILENAME $document\_root$fastcgi\_script\_name; } ``` include /var/www/www.mysite.com/web/nginx.conf; location ~ /nginx.conf { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; } } ``` * * * ``` /etc/varnish/default.vcl # This is a basic VCL configuration file for varnish. See the ``` vcl(7) # man page for details on VCL syntax and semantics. # # Default backend definition. Set this to point to your content # server. # backend default { .host = “127.0.0.2”; .port = “8080”; # .connect\_timeout = 600s; #.first\_byte\_timeout = 600s; # .between\_bytes\_timeout = 600s; # .max\_connections = 800; * * * Note: uncommenting the last four options at default.vcl made no difference. * * * cat /etc/default/varnish ``` # Configuration file for varnish # # /etc/init.d/varnish expects the variables $DAEMON_OPTS, $NFILES ``` and $MEMLOCK # to be set from this shell script fragment. # ``` # Should we start varnishd at boot? Set to "yes" to enable. START=yes # Maximum number of open files (for ulimit -n) NFILES=131072 # Maximum locked memory size (for ulimit -l) # Used for locking the shared memory log in memory. If you increase ``` log size, # you need to increase this number as well MEMLOCK=82000 ``` # Default varnish instance name is the local nodename. Can be ``` overridden with # the -n switch, to have more instances on a single server. INSTANCE=$(uname -n) ``` # This file contains 4 alternatives, please use only one. ## Alternative 1, Minimal configuration, no VCL # # Listen on port 6081, administration on localhost:6082, and forward ``` to # content server on localhost:8080. Use a 1GB fixed-size cache file. # # DAEMON\_OPTS=“-a :6081 # -T localhost:6082 # -b localhost:8080 # -u varnish -g varnish # -S /etc/varnish/secret # -s file,/var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish\_storage.bin,1G” ``` ## Alternative 2, Configuration with VCL # # Listen on port 6081, administration on localhost:6082, and forward ``` to # one content server selected by the vcl file, based on the request. Use a 1GB # fixed-size cache file. # DAEMON\_OPTS=“-a :80 -T 127.0.0.2:6082 -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s file,/var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish\_storage.bin,1G” If you need any other info let me know. I am all out of clue as to whats the problem. Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[nginx not connecting with varnish](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,228029,228029#msg-228029)** > > I get this varnish error “FetchError no backend connection” Varnishlog: 0 CLI - Rd ping 0 CLI - Wr 200 19 PONG 1340829925 1.0 12 SessionOpen c 79.124.74.11 3063 :80 12 SessionClose c EOF