dennis8

LOL, I guess those “random folders” are just visitors accessing these pages. But that doesn’t explain why no folders are generated for the pages that I load…?

Ok, forget about the homepage even. No matter how I tweak the htaccess nothing seems to work. Please take a look at my current mod rewrites and tell me if there’s something wrong:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://usbmemorysticks.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://usbmemorysticks.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.usbmemorysticks.net/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.usbmemorysticks.net$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.swivel.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.swivel.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ – [F,NC]
RewriteRule ^find-kanguru-memory-sticks$ kanguru-flash-drives [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^find-corsair-memory-sticks$ corsair-flash-drives [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^find-patriot-memory-sticks$ patriot-flash-drives [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^find-usb-bacon-and-chicken-memory-sticks$ /find-usb-bacon-and-chicken-flash-drives [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^category/flash-drive-designs-specialities$ /category/cool-flash-drives [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^find-transcend-memory-sticks$ /category/transcend-flash-drives [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(Android|2.0\ MMP|240×320|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|hiptop|IEMobile|iPhone|iPod|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.0|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|Playstation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|Windows\ CE|WinWAP).*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(Android|2.0\ MMP|240×320|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|hiptop|IEMobile|iPhone|iPod|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.0|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|Playstation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|Windows\ CE|WinWAP).*
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>

# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I went so far as to delete everything from above “# BEGIN WPSuperCache” as well as below “# END WPSuperCache”. But whatever I changed in htaccess the caching still didn’t work. For some reason I’m thinking that the problem could be of the “enforce www” kind but since I’m using WordPress 2.7 I shouldn’t need that plugin. (Looks like that plugin isn’t available anymore anyway) The only other thing I could think of is the permalink structure of my blog – its set to /%postname%.

Btw, I also started the debugging log but it doesn’t list any errors. It only shows that the meta files were created for this or that page yet these pages loaded extremely slow when the cache was first generated. After that they loaded fast. From what I understand though these cached pages expire after an hour so this really doesn’t help me a lot, right?

Thanks for any feedback and help.

I also just tried switching compression on & off. It doesn’t make a difference. I’m quite baffled…

Maybe there’s a conflict with a plugin? Heck, maybe one is causing the slow loading in the first place….these are the ones I have installed:

AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget
Akismet
Another WordPress Meta Plugin
Collapsing Categories
commentluv
CyStat
Enhanced WP-ContactForm
Favicon Manager
NextGEN Gallery
NoFollow Free
Redirection
SEO Title Tag
Technorati SimpleTags
TinyMCE Advanced
WordBay
Wordpress Gravatars

I doubt there’s an error on my servers side because like I said they actually recommended supercache to me plus when they checked they assured me the server has been working just fine.

So if I go through the trouble and load every single page on my end that means it will then have cached versions of them – and these will subsequently be served to my visitors, right? If it takes a while for every page while I first cache them oh well – main thing is my visitors get fast loading times after that.

Ignore 4, I just talked to hostgator customer service and they told me its installed on their server. [Duh, why else would they recommend supercache to me? ;-)]