Sharing knowledge is always a good idea. Lately I have been doing lots of integration with Varnish and Magento with different clients and it will be interesting to find out if you have any ideas or suggestions (read improvements) to make it better and ultimately help the community even more: Setting up varnish in switch mode: In my home directory I always have a bash aliases (vim ~/.bash_aliases) file where I add the following iptable rules: ...

Did you ever want to create a redirect in a Magento Store without having to use htacess? Using Observers and the powerful Request and Response objects from Zend Framework you can. In this example I will show how you can do it. First you need to create the module, more on module creations here: http://goo.gl/vvT2j. Create a directory under app/code/community and name it FooBar, then create another directory under FooBar and name it Redirect. Create two directories inside FooBar: etc and Model. ...