Title: [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Manual install
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Manual install

 *  [adblaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adblaze/)
 * (@adblaze)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/)
 * I have made many attempts to install this using the instructions provided and
   cannot get this plugin to activate. I get no errors, it just will not activate.
   I used older versions just fine. Looking at the manual instructions I cannot 
   figure out how to install this either.
 * “Or you can unzip and FTP upload the plugin to your plugins directory (wp-content/
   plugins/). In either case, when done wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/ should
   exist.”
 * This doesn’t help much.

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 *  Thread Starter [adblaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adblaze/)
 * (@adblaze)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635119)
 * To add to this issue. I tried installing this on a different domain on the same
   server. Same issue, I cannot get the plugin to activate. No errors on install,
   no error on trying to activate. It just won’t activate. I used version 0.8.5.2
   for a while and no issues whatsoever.
 *  Thread Starter [adblaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adblaze/)
 * (@adblaze)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635120)
 * I did a manual install and same thing. I cannot activate this.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635141)
 * I think this post would be helpful in addition to trying the development version
   of the plugin: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error?replies=22#post-1654644](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-500-internal-server-error?replies=22#post-1654644)
 *  Thread Starter [adblaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adblaze/)
 * (@adblaze)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635143)
 * I get no errors, I just cannot activate the plugin. I did actually get this installed
   on another domain on the same server so it’s not sever specific. It may be another
   plugin conflict. I’ll send you an email.
 *  Thread Starter [adblaze](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adblaze/)
 * (@adblaze)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635149)
 * I got this installed after deactivating a 5 star review plugin.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * (@fredericktownes)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635172)
 * Did you contact the author about the issue? What plugin is that specifically?
   Some have options to improve compatibility with caching.

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 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-manual-install/#post-1635172)
 * Status: not resolved