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How to set up Authcache module with Varnish and ESI?

I am trying to set up Drupal 7 with Authcache beta 2 and Varnish 3.0 but I can’t get the ESI blocks working. Varnish it self seems to work well.

I am using the example.vcl from sites/all/modules/authcache/modules/authcache_varnish/ but on the Authcache ESI status debug page I get the following messages:

ERROR: Request Header   HTTP header X-Authcache-Do-ESI is not on primary request. Please make sure that the reverse proxy software (varnish) is configured according to the requirements of authcache_esi / authcache_varnish.  OK  ESI Tag Tag successfully substituted by reverse proxy.  ERROR: ESI Subrequest Header    HTTP header X-Authcache is not on ESI subrequest. Please make sure that the reverse proxy software (varnish) is configured according to the requirements of authcache.

The second problem is that even if I configure some blocks on the blocks setting page to load via ESI and AJAX, this block do not show up at admin/config/system/authcache/p13n and admin/config/system/authcache/p13n/frontcontroller.

There for it does not surprise that watchdog gives the error message (for each block):

Failed to find url generator for route frag/block/block-25

EDIT: My setting.php is set up as follows:

$conf['reverse_proxy'] = TRUE; $conf['reverse_proxy_addresses'] = array('127.0.0.1'); /**  * Add Varnish as the page cache handler.  */ $conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/varnish/varnish.cache.inc'; $conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/authcache/authcache.cache.inc'; $conf['cache_backends'][] = 'sites/all/modules/authcache/modules/authcache_builtin/authcache_builtin.cache.inc'; $conf['cache_class_cache_page'] = 'VarnishCache'; // Drupal 7 does not cache pages when we invoke hooks during bootstrap. // This needs to be disabled. $conf['page_cache_invoke_hooks'] = FALSE;

I didn’t find any documentations so what am I supposed to do?

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