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Exclude URL from Varnish cache

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📅 Updated: July 27, 2023 (Originally published: September 8, 2016)

Sometimes you have that one page that needs to be excluded from Varnish cache. Here is how to do it.

Identify vcl_recv function in your VCL file (normally default.vcl).

Paste in the rule to bypass cache for particular page URL:


sub vcl_recv {
...
   if (req.url ~ "^/your-exact-url-here") {
      return (pass);
   }
...
}

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