Fix links, update RedHat section, small language and content nits

parent 53e6f23a
......@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Installing Varnish
With open source software, you can choose to install binary packages
or compile stuff from source-code. To install a package or compile
from source is a matter of personal taste. If you don't know which
method too choose read the whole document and choose the method you
method to choose, read the whole document and choose the method you
are most comfortable with.
......@@ -20,26 +20,24 @@ being:
FreeBSD
-------
From source:
``cd /usr/ports/varnish && make install clean``
Binary package:
``pkg_add -r varnish``
From source:
``cd /usr/ports/varnish && make install clean``
CentOS/RedHat
-------------
We try to keep the latest version available as prebuilt RPMs (el5) on
`repo.varnish-cache.org <http://repo.varnish-cache.org/>`. See the
We try to keep the latest version available as prebuilt RPMs (el5 and el6)
on `repo.varnish-cache.org <http://repo.varnish-cache.org/>`. See the
`RedHat installation instructions
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/redhat>` for more information.
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/redhat>`_ for more information.
Varnish is included in the `EPEL
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ repository. Unfortunately we
had a syntax change in Varnish 2.0.6->2.1.X. This means that we can
not update Varnish in `EPEL 5 <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ so
the latest version there is Varnish 2.0.6.
EPEL6 should have Varnish 2.1 available once it releases.
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL>`_ repository, however due to
incompatible syntax changes in newer versions of Varnish, only older
versions are available. We recommend that you install the latest
version from our repository.
Debian/Ubuntu
-------------
......@@ -49,18 +47,8 @@ Varnish up and running type `sudo apt-get install varnish`. Please
note that this might not be the latest version of Varnish. If you
need a later version of Varnish, please follow the installation
instructions for `Debian
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/debian>` or `Ubuntu
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/ubuntu>`.
Other systems
-------------
You are probably best of compiling your own code. See `Compiling
Varnish from source`_.
If that worked for you, you can skip the rest of this document for
now, and and start reading the much more interesting
:ref:`tutorial-index` instead.
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/debian>`_ or `Ubuntu
<http://www.varnish-cache.org/installation/ubuntu>`_.
Compiling Varnish from source
......@@ -71,7 +59,7 @@ want to compile Varnish from source for other reasons, follow these
steps:
We recommend downloading a release tarball, which you can find on
`repo.varnish-cache.org <http://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/>`.
`repo.varnish-cache.org <http://repo.varnish-cache.org/source/>`_.
Alternatively, if you want to hack on Varnish, you should clone our
git repository by doing.
......@@ -125,12 +113,12 @@ The ``configure`` script takes some arguments, but more likely than
not, you can forget about that for now, almost everything in Varnish
are run time parameters.
Before you install, you may want to run the regression tests, make
a cup of tea while it runs, it takes some minutes::
Before you install, you may want to run the test suite, make a cup of
tea while it runs, it takes some minutes::
make check
Don't worry of a single or two tests fail, some of the tests are a
Don't worry if a single or two tests fail, some of the tests are a
bit too timing sensitive (Please tell us which so we can fix it) but
if a lot of them fails, and in particular if the ``b00000.vtc`` test
fails, something is horribly wrong, and you will get nowhere without
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