72strokes

I believe I’ve fixed it. Apparently the root cause was something to do with my APC settings. I re-uploaded all of the w3tc files into the plugins directory. I then defaulted out everything apc related in php.ini and restarted php. That seemed to do the trick. I can now make changes to the configuration and they stick.

Hopefully this helps anybody that comes across this problem in the future.

Update: I tried removing the plugin again via dashboard. It gave me an error message saying it couldn’t uninstall the plugin because it couldn’t delete all the files.

So I went in and manually deleted the files. I deleted the only w3tc file (w3-total-cache-config.php) from wp-content and the wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache folder. I also deleted nginx.conf in my root directory.

Now the website works, but I can’t login to my admin panel. I get the following message:

W3 Total Cache Error: some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove /home/derek/public_html/72strokes.com/public/wp-content/advanced-cache.php.

I know that I’m missing something here, but advance-cache.php has already been deleted. There must be some reference to it somewhere that I missed?