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Hi,
This isn’t a techie answer unfortunately, but on the basis you’re desperate to get your site back up and running you could try what I did when I had the same problem.
I raised a ticket with my host and they accessed and removed the W3TC rules from my .htaccess file (something I was frightened to try myself) and my site was back online within a few minutes.
Following on from my earlier post where I stated:
“after logging out my WP Admin bar is still visible, or, changes I’ve made to the page are not showing. If I log back in, “empty only the disc cache” and then log back out the admin bar disappears and the changes I’ve made become visible. Again, this would suggest to me that it is indeed caching the page.”
After some more testing I can now confirm that this is down to my personal browser cache, therefore it is not confirmation that my pages are being cached.
So, although there are files being created in my pgcache folder, I have no real evidence that W3TC is actually serving cached pages from the page cache.
So as you say Campbell, when the debug shows Caching: enabled | Status: Not Cached, we still have no evidence to conclude whether the debug info is accurate, or whether the page is still being cached despite the debug info.
Some Week’s ago I also bug-reported exactly the same problem.
However, Despite the Debug info stating Caching: enabled | Status: Not Cached, I think it is still caching the page.
I’m no technical expert so could be wrong, but after emptying all caches, logging out, then looking in “CPanel/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache” whilst browsing the site the cached files are being created.
index.html and index.html_gzip files being created in the pgcahge folder suggests to my limited knowledge that it is actually caching the page despite the debug info suggesting otherwise.
Furthermore, I have another bug with it in that sometimes after logging out my WP Admin bar is still visible, or, changes I’ve made to the page are not showing. If I log back in, “empty only the disc cache” and then log back out the admin bar disappears and the changes I’ve made become visible. Again, this would suggest to me that it is indeed caching the page.
However, despite all that, my Yslow score is the same whether I have page caching on or off. Not sure if Yslow score should improve from page caching alone.
But when I test the site speed on Pingdom tools with page caching switched off my site load time is around 1.5 seconds. But with Page caching switched on site load time drops to 860ms.
My uneducated conclusion from all this is that page caching is working despite “Debug info…. Caching: enabled | Status: Not Cached”
Other settings I have include:
minify enabled
Database cache enabled
Browser cache enabledEverything else is not enabled.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [W3 Total Cache] [Plugin: W3 Total Cache] RSS?I was following this thread and exactly the same thing happened to my site when I added:
*.xml
*.rss500 Internal server error, and as a novice I was seriously up the creek. Fortunately my hosting provider is one of the best in the business for service and they fixed my .htaccess for me.
So, unless you know what you are doing, be careful adding those settings to “never cache the following pages”
There already is a setting in the current version of W3TC for caching/not caching feeds, so I’m wondering if adding this to the “never cache” causes a conflict.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change color of just 1 link only.Thank you so much, worked perfectly.
Very kind of you to help.