Site Breaks when clearing cache

Hi qtwrk,

Apologies I had meant to mention that in my original post.. Serve stale has always been set to off.

thanks

Thanks qtwrk,

I gave that a go (it was set to 200 before) and then restarted lsws to be sure.

The problem is still happening, it seems to happen if I have products in the cart, or if I had products in the cart.. I have the cache cart privately option enabled.. My first test was to just put some pages in the cache with nothing in the the cart then do a “purge all” from the wordpress admin. That seemed to work fine, on the next page load the site loaded properly.

Then I tested by clicking around first to put some non private pages in the cache, verifying cache hits by inspecting the headers.. Then I put some items in the cart and clicked around verifying the private cache hits again by looking at the headers.. Then I removed the items from the cart and tested to check I was now seeing the public cache which I was. This time when doing a purge all the site broke giving 404 errors on the litespeed cache files.. I gave it 30 seconds or so in case something was happening in the background but it stayed broken.

If I click around the site without any items in the cart then purging the cache seems to work fine.

If however I have ever had any items in the cart weather they are still there or not then the issue happens so it seems to be an issue with the private caching. But that is just a guess based on my testing!

OK.. I performed 2 tests:

Test 1 (there was no issue after performing this test):

– Clear server cache by deleting contents of /usr/local/lsws/cachedata (I used this method instead of the purge all button in wordpress admin to be 100% sure the cache was clean)
– Starting with a clean browser cache in chrome I clicked around various pages on the site, at no point did I add anything to the basket.
– Pages were cached publically according to the headers.
– I hit the “purge all” button in the Litespeed cache settings.
– Everything looked fine after refreshing the page

Test 2 (this is the one that breaks it)

– Clear server cache by deleting contents of /usr/local/lsws/cachedata.
– Starting with a clean browser cache in chrome I clicked around various pages on the site, I browsed the shop and added some items to the basket, visited the checkout / basket removed some items etc.
– Pages were cached privately according to the headers.
– I hit the “purge all” button in the Litespeed cache settings.
– At this point on refreshing the page and got 404 errors on the CSS and JS files created by litespeed cache.. The 404’s were on files like https://www.twobirdsspirits.co.uk/wp-content/litespeed/cssjs/e7d66.css?d2cff and https://www.twobirdsspirits.co.uk/wp-content/litespeed/cssjs/da6d0.js?0f112 on checking the litespeed/ccss folder in wp-content (ccss was the only folder now present in litespeed) the only files in there are archive.css, front.css and page.css

Let me know if you need more info, the problem appears to be if pages at any point have been privately cached once I add even one item to the basket and purge the cache I see the issue.