nginx reports [upstream sent no valid HTTP/1.0 header] when used with varnish

Joydeep Bakshi joydeep.bakshi at netzrezepte.de
Tue Apr 22 10:00:37 UTC 2014


@Lukas - attached is the cap file

@Maxim -  after starting varnish only the following port comes up

# netstat -nat | grep 60
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:6082            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp        0      0 :::6082                 :::*                    LISTEN


On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 12:55:07PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My setting works well  through nginx->apache but not through
> > nginx->varnish->apache
> >
> > apache is configured to listen to port 8080 . when nginx uses
> >
> > proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080
> >
> > the sites are running fine.
> >
> > If I introduce varnish after nginx  by  [proxy_pass
> http://127.0.0.1:6082]
> >  the nginx starts throwing following error and browser also shows "*Zero
> > Sized Reply"*
> >
> >
> > [error] 17147#0: *207 upstream sent no valid HTTP/1.0 header while
> reading
> > response header from upstream
> >
> > and /var/log/messages shows
> >
> > varnishd[16984]: CLI telnet 127.0.0.1 42212 127.0.0.1 6082 Wr 101 Unknown
> > request.#012Type 'help' for more info.#012all commands are in lower-case.
> >
> > varnishd[16984]: CLI telnet 127.0.0.1 42212 127.0.0.1 6082 Rd
> > Cache-Control: max-age=0
> >
> > obviously varnish is configured to listen to apache
> >
> > backend default {
> >         .host = "127.0.0.1";
> >         .port = "8080";
> > }
> >
> > Can anyone please suggest the possible reason which is causing the
> problem ?
>
> It looks like you've configured nginx to pass http to varnish CLI
> port.  For obvious reasons this isn't going to work.
>
> --
> Maxim Dounin
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