Hello,
As per Woocomernce recommendation, you need to exclude certain pages from being cached.
I.E.
Go to performance>Page cache and scroll down to Advanced sub-box. Type in the pages you need to exclude from cache in “Never cache the following pages: ”
/products/
/cart/
/account/
Also, make sure to check Woocommerce documentation https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/configuring-caching-plugins/
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
Hi. I have read the documentation. Where does WooCommerce recommend not caching product pages?
What’s the point in using a caching plugin on an e-commerce site if you can’t cache product pages (99% of the site)?
Hello,
If you disable “Cache SSL (HTTPS) requests” does the issue persists?
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
Interesting. Disabling “Cache SSL (HTTPS) requests” seems to fix the issue. What does that tell us? Given that all of my pages are served over HTTPS, am I losing any performance?
Hello,
As you can see in the description “Cache SSL requests (uniquely) for improved performance.” so no you are not losing performance.
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
I don’t understand your point. The description “for improved performance” indicates this option improves performance.
Hello,
Have you run some tests on your website to see if there is a change in performance when “Cache SSL requests (uniquely) for improved performance.” setting is enabled/disabled?
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
I have not. I was hoping for some clarity from the plugin author regarding what this option means and why I might want to use it.
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
Thanks for your quick replies.
Unfortunately, the original problem is back, even with “Cache SSL (HTTPS) requests” still unchecked. Now the URL to which I am redirected is:
https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/farl001/_index.html_gzip/
Presumably I’d be redirected to https://www.alternativeradio.org/products/farl001/_index.html/ if compression were disabled.
What’s going on here? (Currently Page Cache is disabled again because this is a live site.)
Hello,
Thanks for your feedback. If your website uses https, you should enable that option
It should not cause 404 pages, only allow the plug-in to cache https requests.
Can you please share your .htaccess file if convenient so we can check this?
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! Looks like the following line was the problem:
RedirectMatch 301 /(.*)/products/(.*) /products/$2/
How can I keep this rule while using W3TC? I need to ensure the URLs like the following redirect to this page:
https://www.alternativeradio.org/collections/latest-programs/products/farl001/
This was a pattern Shopify used, and I cannot always predict what the collections/latest-programs part in the middle will be. What I can predict is that it will end in /products/farl001/, or /products/jamd004/, or more generally: /products/[productSKU]
Hello,
Is that line before or after W3TC rules?
Thread Starter
Zade
(@nothin7)
It fails whether it is before or after. I prefer it before.
Hello @nothin7,
Sorry for the late reply.
The problem is your redirect. Please add the code below:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/products/(.*)/?$ /products/$2/ [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
Basically what the difference is, is that this rewrite checks if the requested URL is linking to a file. If it doesn’t, redirect the URL.
