WP Super Cache and Dreamhost PS

  • Anyone has succesfully installed WP Super Cache on a Dreamhost Private Server ?
    It doesn’t seem to work in my case.

    At first it was working then after a while i noticed a huge spike in memory and a “Page not cached by WP Super Cache. Could not get mutex lock.” in the footer so I edited wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and uncommented “$use_flock = true”.

    I also noticed that my cache folder had permissions belonging to dhapache so i changed to $cache_path = WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/tmp/’;

    Now, WP-Cache seems to cache pages but only when I visit the pages myself. WP-Super-Cache is showing 0 cached pages and 0 expired pages. I’m also not sure expired pages are deleted.

    I’m using WordPress 2.7, WP-Super-Cache 0.8.6

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  • I’ve no solution but can attest to the fact this happens on regular Dreamhost hosting not just on Private Server.

    I’ll run some tests and let you know what I find.

    I have successfully installed it.

    When I first switched to DH PS, super cache told me that the directory holding the cache was unwritable. So I changed the permissions on the directory to 777 and it’s worked fine ever since.

    That will/may work but you may still get memory spikes as your directories within your account are on NFS volumes.

    What I found works and had this confirmed with Dreamhost tech. is to write to /tmp/

    However if two DH customers both did that you’d be rewriting each others’ .htaccess so I did this in cache config:

    $cache_path = '/tmp/mydomain/';
$file_prefix = 'wp-cache-mydomain-';

    HTH

    I want to correct myself here – supercache was not really working, I just thought it was.

    DH has some documentation on it here:
    https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Fine_Tuning_Your_WordPress_Install

    They suggest turning the plugin “Half On.” This is really just using wp-cache, and in the same documentation it points out that wp-cache is not recommended! Sure enough, trying this, my server immediately served up a 500 error.

    So I deactivated supercache and installed hypercache instead, and that is working.

    https://www.satollo.com/english/wordpress/hyper-cache

    I never tried your tip, forefront, but hypercache is working fine for me so I will probably leave it that way.

    Update from me, too!

    Seting it to /tmp/mydomain/ works BUT files are not being removed on expiry and my /tmp/ folder just filled up and crashed the site and MySQL.

    So I will use Bonusball’s suggestion and if that doesn’t work, regrettably, find a different web host.

    Thread Starter newmed

    (@newmed)

    I have finally decied to disable Super-Cache after the 0.9 upgrade. It’s still not working. I also installed hypercache to see if it works better.

    same here, I wonder what’s causing the problem

    Anyone tried the steps in https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Installing_WP_Super_Cache ?

    I wonder if it’s actually working, and I’m not sure what’s wrong. My site often shows a blank page with WP Super Cache. ?? Perhaps insufficient memory_limit ?

    Anyone tried the steps in https://wiki.dreamhost.com/Installing_WP_Super_Cache ?

    I wonder if it’s actually working, and I’m not sure what’s wrong. My site often shows a blank page with WP Super Cache. ?? Perhaps insufficient memory_limit ?

    I went with Bonusball’s suggestion to use Hyper Cache and it’s working fine.

    Perhaps one day I’ll try WP Super Cache again (when my site gets too popular perhaps ?? but for now Hyper Cache does its job perfectly and I’m happy! ??

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