Tag: customer groups


Adding Customer Group Access Type To Turpentine+Varnish

Update: It looks like the pull request has been accepted and this adjustment has been fully merged into the base Turpentine extension!

I ran into an issue with one of the websites I work on while trying to add Varnish caching in front of their store. They used a lot a catalog price rules which meant that the price on the products would change based on the customer group for the customer viewing the page. At this point I had 2 options, setup Varnish to private cache all the products (which defeats the purpose of Varnish since it would rarely serve a cached page more than once) or figure out how to have Varnish save a page based on the customer group and serve to others with the same group. Continue reading