The Vinyl Cache Users Guide¶

The Vinyl Cache documentation consists of three main documents:

The Vinyl Cache Tutorial explains the basics and gets you started with Vinyl Cache.
The Vinyl Cache Users Guide (this document), explains how Vinyl Cache works and how you can use it to improve your website.
The Vinyl Cache Reference Manual contains hard facts and is useful for looking up specific questions.

After The Big Vinyl Cache Picture, this Users Guide is organized in sections following the major interfaces to Vinyl Cache as a service:

Starting and running Vinyl Cache is about getting Vinyl Cache configured, with respect to storage, sockets, security and how you can control and communicate with Vinyl Cache once it is running.

VCL - Vinyl Configuration Language is about getting Vinyl Cache to handle the HTTP requests the way you want, what to cache, how to cache it, modifying HTTP headers etc. etc.

Reporting and statistics explains how you can monitor what Vinyl Cache does, from a transactional level to aggregating statistics.

Vinyl Cache and Website Performance is about tuning your website with Vinyl Cache.

Troubleshooting Vinyl Cache is for locating and fixing common issues with Vinyl Cache.