Compatibility between Litespeed ‘Guest Mode’ and ‘Real Cookie Banner’

Sorry, we forgot to mention that we already added the following files to the exclude section:

• /real-cookie-banner/
• /real-cookie-banner-pro/
• /wp-json/real-cookie-banner/

We added these strings under Page Optimisation > Tuning > Guest Mode JS Excludes

This is not a compatibility error. You have the Guestmode enabled. Please read this and come back if there are still questions:

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2021/06/01/guest-mode-for-wordpress-in-lscwp-v4-0/

Dear @serpentdriver

Many thanks for coming back.

I appreciate that this is caused by Guest Mode, however, there must be a solution because surely this is not ideal for a visitor to our site.

Best regards,

Piet

however, there must be a solution

Always keep the cache warmed up. A cached page is always faster as uncached and reduces the time until the page reloads at initial requests. The page reload only happens once at the initial request.

If cache warmup doesn’t help for you then add this code on top of your .htaccess outside of LiteSpeed markers:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} ^real_cookie_banner-v [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [E=Cache-Control:vary=%{ENV:LSCACHE_VARY_VALUE}+gdpr]

Hi @serpentdriver

The incompatibility doesn’t seem to have anything to do with a warmed cache.

We found one possible fix but it seems to slow down the page re-load after the initial, fast guest mode load :

We added the following to the JS Excludes and CSS Excludes on the Page Optimisation Tab > Tuning:

• /real-cookie-banner/
• /real-cookie-banner-pro/
• /wp-json/real-cookie-banner/

We will try your cache-vary rule and will let you know the result.

Many thanks for this tip.

Best regards,

Piet

If the problem were a javascript problem, you wouldn’t see anything at all.

That’s why it can only have something to do with the cache, but your error description is only partially useful. Use the posted code for the .htaccess. That should solve the problem, but then you have a new problem.

Dear @serpentdriver

Your .htaccess code works!

We removed the 3 x partial url from the page optimisation tab: js excludes, Guest Mode JS Excludes, css excludes.

What is the new problem we now have?

Many thanks for your help with this.

Best regards,

Piet

What is the new problem we now have?

Do you use the crawler for cache warmup?

Hi @serpentdriver

No, we don’t. The crawler is disabled by our host.

Okay, then you don’t have a new problem, but you should change your hosting provider. A warmed up cache is speeding up the page load time dramatically.

Dear @serpentdriver

Many thanks for all your help with this issue.

I actually found that when I remove all references to Real Cookie Banner from Guest Mode Excludes, JS Excludes and CSS Excludes on the Page Optimisation Tab > Tuning, that Real Cookie Banner worked perfectly, even without your code.

In other words, it seems that a code part within Litespeed Guest Mode has changed and the previous exclusions are no longer necessary.

Best regards,

Piet

If it works now that can only mean that the UCSS code is regenerated. So I wouldn’t count on it staying that way forever. If the problem occurs again, delete the cached UCSS code or/and use my code.

Dear @serpentdriver

I have spoken with Support at Real Cookie Banner and they suggest that we should add a line of code to the Litespeed Plugin that prevents the Real Cookie Banner from loading during the first load under guest mode and only load during the 2nd/reload.

This is the function they refer to:
https://docs.devowl.io/real-cookie-banner/hooks/RCB_IsPreventPreDecision.html

How do we add this code or do you add it to the plugin?

This seems to me like the best solution.

Thank you for your help with this.

Piet