Velocita acts as a caching reverse proxy to Composer repositories.
Combined with composer-velocita, it increases the performance
of a composer install
when a local cache is not yet available and makes sure packages can be downloaded even if the
source location is experiencing issues.
Start a proxy for Packagist and GitHub, listening on port 80
:
docker run -d --name velocita -p 80:8080 \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_URL=https://repo.packagist.org \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_TYPE=composer \
-e MIRROR_GITHUB_CODELOAD_URL=https://codeload.github.com \
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Go ahead and visit http://localhost/mirror/packagist/packages.json
- this should now give you the Packagist index!
Velocita configures itself with the environment variables you pass.
Environment variable | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
VELOCITA_URL |
No | URL (default: http://localhost ) |
The URL at which Velocita is reachable |
VELOCITA_TLS_ENABLED |
No | One of: true , false (default) |
Enable HTTPS |
VELOCITA_AUTH_TYPE |
No | One of: none (default), basic |
Enable HTTP authentication |
A mirror is added if you pass a variable of the form MIRROR_{name}_URL
, and is configured with additional
MIRROR_{name}_*
variables.
When you add a Composer repository, make sure you set MIRROR_{name}_TYPE
to composer
so the correct cache
invalidation is applied.
For example, this will proxy two different Composer repositories:
docker run -d --name velocita -p 80:8080 \
-e MIRROR_WPACKAGIST_URL=https://wpackagist.org \
-e MIRROR_WPACKAGIST_TYPE=composer \
-e MIRROR_FIREGENTO_URL=https://packages.firegento.com \
-e MIRROR_FIREGENTO_TYPE=composer \
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For every mirror, the following configuration options are available:
Environment variable | Required | Type | Description |
---|---|---|---|
MIRROR_{name}_URL |
Yes | URL | The URL of the upstream server to proxy |
MIRROR_{name}_TYPE |
No | One of: simple (default), composer |
The mirror type |
MIRROR_{name}_CACHE_EXPIRY |
No | Time (default: 3650d ) |
Time after which cached items expire |
MIRROR_{name}_CACHE_SIZE |
No | Size (default: 1g ) |
Maximum size of this mirror's cache |
MIRROR_{name}_ALLOW_REVALIDATE |
No | Boolean (default: false ) |
Allow revalidation of cached items |
MIRROR_{name}_PACKAGES_JSON_EXPIRY |
No | Time (default: 2m ) |
Time after which packages.json expires |
MIRROR_{name}_AUTH_TYPE |
No | One of: basic (default), bearer |
Type of upstream authentication |
MIRROR_{name}_AUTH_USERNAME |
No | String | Username for authentication |
MIRROR_{name}_AUTH_PASSWORD |
No | String | Password or token for authentication |
MIRROR_{name}_USER_AGENT |
No | String | User Agent header sent to upstream |
For time and size unit syntax, see: http://nginx.org/en/docs/syntax.html
Inside the container, all cache files are stored in a volume mounted on /var/cache/velocita
. Use -v
to mount this
volume somewhere on your host's filesystem:
docker run -d --name velocita -p 80:8080 \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_URL=https://repo.packagist.org \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_TYPE=composer \
-v /path/on/host:/var/cache/velocita \
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- Open up port
443
- Update
VELOCITA_URL
to usehttps://
- Set
VELOCITA_TLS_ENABLED
totrue
- Provide your X.509 PEM-encoded certificate (or chain) and key file inside the container at
/etc/nginx/server.crt
and/etc/nginx/server.key
docker run -d --name velocita -p 80:8080 -p 443:8443 \
-e VELOCITA_URL=https://localhost \
-e VELOCITA_TLS_ENABLED=true \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_URL=https://repo.packagist.org \
-e MIRROR_PACKAGIST_TYPE=composer \
-v /path/to/certificate.crt:/etc/nginx/server.crt \
-v /path/to/keyfile.pem:/etc/nginx/server.key \
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HTTP requests will be redirected to HTTPS.
- Set
VELOCITA_AUTH_TYPE
tobasic
- Provide a Nginx-compatible
htpasswd
file inside the container at/etc/nginx/users.htpasswd