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[Varnish] Purge objects from command line

Purge all content

For Varnish 2.x:

varnishadm -S /etc/varnish/secret -T :6082 'purge.url .*'

For Varnish 3.x:

varnishadm -S /etc/varnish/secret -T :6082 'ban.url .'

Purge objects from a specific URL

For Varnish 2.x:

varnishadm -S /etc/varnish/secret -T :6082 'purge.url /foobar'

For Varnish 3.x:

varnishadm -S /etc/varnish/secret -T :6082 'ban.url == /foobar'

Note that ban accepts regex pattern. By modifying the expression you can create more specific bans. For example, to purge for all CSS files only for a specific domain:

varnishadm -S /etc/varnish/secret -T :6082 'ban req.http.host ~ www.mydomain.com && req.url ~ .css'

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