Navigation in catalog view missing when Varnish is activated

[duerstd]

Hi there,

We currently installed and activated Varnish on our new Magento 2 solution. After the installation was successfully, we noticed that the navigation on the catalog view (just on the catalog view) is gone.

Our guess is that something in the varnish configuration file (default.vcl) which we exported from our Magento 2 shop is missing (http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/varnish/config-varnish-magento.html -> see step 7).
This because after the varnish installation on the server (before the activation in the Magento 2 backend) everything worked fine. Then we activated varnish in the Magento 2 backend, the hole navigation was gone. After updating the default.vcl file with the exported one from the Magento 2 backend, the navigation on the static pages came back - but not the navigation on the catalog view.

System information:
CentOS 6 and 7
Apache 2.2.15
Magento 2.0.2

Checkout the screenshots:

[erikhansen]

I have also experienced the same issue where the main navigation disappears when Varnish is enabled.

[erikhansen]

@duerstd I created a new issue with steps to reproduce this issue: #3897 Can you close this task since it reports the same issue as my newly created issue?

[mazhalai]

Closing as duplicate

[OmarFaruque]

I am facing same problem after install new Magento 2.1.1

[Jilco]

I removed the TTL attribute from /vendor/magento/module-theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml and the menu bar was there again! But can that do any harm, if I'm correct the default TTL is enheritated. Or am I wrong?

[mkleim]

Hi, thanks a lot for that hint.
Worked really well after reindexing.
I´m happy about that

[ASirik]

hey @duerstd did you fix the issue ?

[jpcsguru]

hi,
having same issue any fix?

[kllee824]

I got the same issue and fixed it by removed TTL attribute.

Thanks a lot

[likeweb]

Information
The TTL attribute can be found under:
vendor/magento/module-theme/view/frontend/layout/default.xml
remove the ttl="3600"

After removing the attribute and clearing cache the varnish cache worked fine for me

[avadh88]

Enter Code in theme default.xml

<referenceBlock name="store.menu"> <block class="Magento\Theme\Block\Html\Topmenu" cacheable="false" /> </referenceBlock>

[erikhansen]

Beware of using cacheable="false" in layout XML. Any page that contains a block with cacheable="false" will never be cached in the Full Page Cache. So I would not recommend the solution that @vadh88 just posted.

[avadh88]

@erikhansen If we use full page varnish cache menu disappears. If we remove ttl from vendor file is not a feasible solution. are you know how to remove TTL from block ?