[Plugin: WP Super Cache] Front page no longer served by super-cache

No solution, but you’re not the only one. Someone else reported this problem, and I’m having almost the same issue. In my case the correct home page of the site is a static page, not a blog page, but WP-Cache eventually starts erroneously serving the front page of the blog on the home page. The workaround is the same as you described: either clearing the cache or setting the plugin to “half”. I thought I’d solved the problem by turning off file locking. With debugging notifications activated turning off file locking was the only way I could eliminate debug messages, and that seemed to have also corrected this problem. However, after a few days the “wrong home page” issue returned.

Same issue here, but:

We do have 9 identical blogs, (only changes the css) and its happening only on two of them, instead of showing the homa page (wich must be a static page from our blog) its serving an archive page from the first category (wich has no posts) resulting a 404 in front page.

Every time super cache refreshes the home page it turns in that 404.

our blogs are all WordPress 2.7

I am having this same issue. After maybe a couple of hours or so the front page goes to 404. The rest of the site is working fine, just the front page. We are pulling a custom category for the front page, but besides that everything else is pretty cut and dry.

WordPress 2.7.1
https://obeygiant.com

I was having a similar problem with a recent version of supercache and a WP version 2.6.1. I had to downgrade for now until this problem gets resolved. Had a random archive page get served up in place of my home page (ONLY for those without a cookie) which caused SEO havoc. EDIT: I forgot to mention that my home page is a static html, unconnected to wordpress.

I am exactly having the same issue. Everytime super cache refreshes, my homepage starts returning 404. This is damn ridiculous. I hope donncha or someone else cares to reply to this thread with a solution. A release every week doesn’t help with these sort of bugs.

rajupp – snide remarks don’t encourage help from support people either. Please be polite.

I don’t know why that happens. Please list your plugins, your theme (and url to theme) and what’s on your front page (posts or a static page).

When you get the 404, is it a WordPress 404 page or is it a generic Apache 404? Do you have any plugin that does special things to catch 404 requests? Does the 404 request get cached in the wp-content/cache/supercache/hostname/index.html(.gz)?
Is the 404 recorded in a cached file in wp-content/cache/ ?

Does your theme or any of the plugins you have use query_posts()? That overwrites the 404 error flag and messes up the caching. There’s already a fix in the plugin for that but there might other ways of overwriting the 404 status. The 404 page shouldn’t be cached at all.

Same problem here…..

It’s a wordpress 404

tvds – can you debug it? I can’t replicate this problem on my server so I can’t fix it.