Configuring Traffic Server¶
Traffic Server provides several options for configuring the system.
Configure Traffic Server¶
You can quickly and easily change your Traffic Server configuration via command-line interface using traffic_ctl.
View Configuration Options¶
To view a configuration setting, enter the following command:
traffic_ctl config get VARIABLE
where var is the variable associated with the configuration option. For a list of variables, refer to Configuration Variables.
Change Configuration Options¶
To change the value of a configuration setting, enter the following command:
traffic_ctl config set VARIABLE VALUE
where var is the variable associated with the configuration option and value is the value you want to use. For a list of the variables, see Configuration Variables.
Configure Traffic Server Using Configuration Files¶
You can change
Traffic Server configuration options by manually editing specific
variables in records.config
.
Traffic Server must reread the configuration files for any changes to take effect.
This is done with traffic_ctl config reload
. Some configuration changes require a
full restart of Traffic Server.
The following is a sample portion of records.config
:
In addition to records.config
,
Traffic Server provides other configuration files that are used to
configure specific features. You can manually edit all configuration
files as described in Configuration Files.