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Thanks. I forgot I asked already! I am though eventually, actively building a WP site and am embedding the phpBB forum in it. So maybe I’ll just install and play – after I watch the video.

@gappiah – thanks for the reply.

The problem I have though is that index.php shouldn’t redirect. The only URIs that should redirect are either a single / or nothing (as per the apache RewriteRule. It searches for ^/?$ which means just a front slash, which is optional.

# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^thepompeychimes\.net$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.thepompeychimes\.net$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "https\:\/\/thepompeychimes\.net\/forum" [R=301,L]

Before I installed WP, I had an index.php file and that didn’t redirect. I renamed that file index_pre_wordpress.php before I installed WP. That still doesn’t redirect. All the other files in the directory do not redirect. It’s just the newly created WP index.php that does. That’s what makes me think it is something going on in the background, where WP is stripping the index.php bit, which then does get picked up by the RewriteRule.

I have tested this just now. If I comment out the RewriteRule in .htaccess and enter https://thepompeychimes.net/index.php, nothing redirects and I see the WP home page. If I then put the RewriteRule back, https://thepompeychimes.net/index.php redirects to https://thepompeychimes.net/forum/. No other file redirects.

I think I’ll have to look around and see if I can create a rewrite that does the following. I’m sure it must be possible and then it simply won’t redirect me. It won’t be too much hassle to update the .htaccess file if my ip address changes: –

If ( 
      (host is thepompeychimes.net OR
       host is www.thepompeychimes.net)
      AND
      (ip address isn't my ip address)
    )
Then
  Redirect

Great – thanks ??

I’ll have a stab at it then and let you know how I get on.

Oh and many thanks for providing this!

I’ve just seen the following on https://quic.cloud/faq/#cache, which may have an impact in what I’m seeing: –

Under the current CDN cache policy, pages are stored at a PoP for 24 hours from the last access. So, pages that don’t see much traffic will be removed from the PoP’s cache after about a day, but pages that are accessed at least once daily will remain in CDN cache up to 7 days.

Future plans include tiered regional caching, which will increase the CDN cache hit rate and allow us to cache pages in a nearby node longer term.

I’ll try making sure I access the homepage a few times a day and see if the MISS goes away.

@serpentdriver

Thanks for the reply.

I hadn’t picked up on the localisation bit. To be honest, all of the useful traffic will be very local (the site is for a reflexologist, so clients really do need to be close by). So, as you say, maybe the CDN is actually going to be slower. However, I am using a shared hosting solution currently, which does have limited resources. So I’m not sure how best to decide – I guess I’ll just have to try with and without quic.cloud.

I’m afraid I haven’t quite understood your second paragraph regarding the details shown in the headers. Are you saying that the first load is actually not quite correct when it says the CDN is a miss?