Tranny

Hey guys,

I wanted to thank you for taking time to try to help me. Since everything was failing and no straightforward resolution seemed to exist, I have decided to remove WP Super Cache form the blog entirely, including complete deletion of the /cache? folder and all of its content, including subfolders, removal of cache related lines form .htaccess file and wp-config.php file and went to reinstall the plug in from scratch, on a clean blog with no traces of preciously used WP Super Cache.

I think this may have done the trick. I have turned the debugging back on and provided my email address where to send the emails, but after 20 seconds I had more than 2500 emails sent to me so I had to quickly turn it off. But as I am going through the emails, they all seem to be just notifications of the plugin doing its job, rather than telling me that it couldn’t write to a temp file. The notes in emails vary, but form a couple dozen that I have checked so far, they contained the following (one email per line in random order):

Cookie detected: wordpress_eda2c6a9acc9107d0ab762889c70c7e8
exit request
Serving wp-cache static file
No wp-cache file exists. Must generate a new one.
supercache dir:
/www/###.com/public_html/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.###.com/wp-content/plugins/anarchy_media/anarchy_media_player.php/
Cookie detected: wordpress_test_cookie
In WP Cache Phase 2
wp-cache file exists
Renamed temp wp-cache file to
/www/###.com/public_html/wp-content/cache/wp-cache-438c9a7c7e0adacfeccace4267828e15.html
Supercache caching disabled. Non empty GET request.
Setting up WordPress actions

…there are all normal and signify that the plugin is working and does what it should do, right? As a side note, I have also checked the source file and it DOES have the note at the end telling me that a cached file was served. Did I just solve my problem there 😉

Now I must go and delete 2500+ emails I got within seconds. Overwhelming, but glad it seems to work 🙂

I appreciate your response. To be honest though, I would never host with any of the shady, unstable hosts listed on that page. I have a dedicated server with real webhost and as such there is never a problem adding or removing anything from it. It’s fully managed as I am a webmaster, not a server tech. But that’s not the point.

I must say I still don’t understand what you are saying and if what you are saying makes no sense, how am I to explain to my server techs what I want form them? The /wp-content/cache/ directory is set to 775, not 755. Directories with 755 permissions can not be written to by scripts – that much I know as I have tested it. In case of directories such as /wp-content/cache/ after I have set the permissions to 775, the script created additional subdirectories inside the ownership over which is owned by the script so it can write inside them.

I truly don’t know what I’m supposed to do here to make it work.

I chose to have the WP Super Cache debugging messages emailed to me and this is what they bear:

Error. Supercache could not write to 6689970974b7390102887c1.04022331.tmp

Any idea what that means?

You should apply for “vague talker or the year” award. You are like Barack Obama – says a bunch of stuff but none of it makes any sense.

Thanks for your reply. Could you be more specific? Where do I go to set voting rules? How do I make a sidebar display post by the rating?

PS – there is a drop down menu under Tools in which if I select “Only Users” nothing happens. After I click SET, the page reloads and that drop down menu displays “/” (forward slash sign) and all visitors continue to rate without problems. Is this the settings you are talking about? If so, is it going to be fixed so it actually works? I mean what sense does it make having it there if you can’t set it to desired settings?

OK, so this plug-in is dead. What’s a decent substitution? Anyone can recommend one that works?