Bug – IIS8 w/ Website Base a UNC Path – Workaround

I’m working on getting W3TC 0.9.2.11 to work on my setup – Windows file host with a network file share backend at \\[path]\[share]\[site name]

w3_path and some other functions are causing me havoc and I’m working on fixing them for my setup.

In define.php:

function w3_path($path) {
	liveoutput("path", $path);
    $path = preg_replace('~[/\\\]+~', '/', $path);
	liveoutput("path-after-preg", $path);
    $path = rtrim($path, '/');

    return $path;
}

The line in there with
preg_replace('~[/\\\]+~', '/', $path);
for me has to be
preg_replace('~[/\\\]~', '/', $path);
—without the + modifier because then is replaces
\\[path]\[share]\[site name]
with
/[path]/[share]/[site name]
which doesn’t exist!

Hopefully something will make it into future revisions so my changes don’t get lost at every update!

Thanks,
Brent

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