failed on 3.6, tried to fix the config & gave up

  • Hi there! Tried ‘Super Cache’ but disappointed, all my other WP plugins have installed & self-configured fine.

    First of all, Super Cache complained about missing ‘WP_CACHE’ in my config — I was a bit surprised to have to make manual edits, but put it in & uploaded.

    Then plugin started to complain, with 3-4 PHP errors, about ‘include’ paths. IIRC these were purportedly from ‘advanced-cache.php’ to ‘wp-cache-phase1.php’, and had a message-box with an instruction to edit advanced-cache.php.

    However on inspecting advanced-cache.php, it became apparent it was config-driven by WPCACHEHOME. I defined this path, no luck, struggled thru four different path definitions & trying to understand why — no luck.

    Dismayed by the apparent failure, compared to all my other WP plugins, of WP Super Cache to properly self-install or self-configure or work ??

    Here’s a sample error messages:

    Warning: include(/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache-base.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/jillwhit/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache.php on line 53

    I tried every path-stem from /home to /wp. None of them seemed to work.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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  • What works on my end:

    – Make a duplicate of the original advanced-cache.php file from /plugins/wp-super-cache
    – Place the duplicate into wp-content, without modifying anything.
    – In wp-config.php, add this:

    define('WP_CACHE', true);
 define('WPCACHEHOME', dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/');

    This made the error messages go away and allowed the plugin to work.

    Thread Starter Thomas W

    (@thomas-w)

    Thanks, Manuel. Pretty tricky manual hacking, to figure out your approach above!

    I’m afraid that, though experienced in other languages, I’m not deep in PHP & setting this website up for non-technical people. I’m also concerned about future WP/plugin upgrades causing the ‘breakage’ to come back.

    For those reasons, I am trialling QuickCache instead. It worked out of the box (though another CodeStyle Localication dislikes the fact that it decorated CodeStyle’s screen).

    The first cache I’d tried was W3 Total Cache. This worked perfectly out of the box, but it was big & intrusive on the Dashboard left-hand menu.

    So I had hoped that Super Cache would be fully packaged/ perfectly self-configuring & sufficient for this website’s needs. ??

    Thanks for your great response, I’m sure it will be helpful for others installing Super Cache!

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