[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Cannot get out of preview mode

  • Resolved Rhand

    (@rhand)


    14 years, 3 months ago

    Installed W3 Total cache. Tried to deploy, but it kept on telling me:

    Preview mode could not be disabled. Please run chmod 777 /path/to/wp-content/w3-total-cache-config-preview.php to make the configuration file write-able, then try again.

    I decided to download the file and reload it so it would be no longer CHOWN Apache Apache, but part of the group my user is in. So that I could actually CHMOD it. I chmodded it 777. That did not help. The warning just kept on popping up. I guess I will have to try a complete re-installation now?

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  • After activating, I went to ismyblogworking.com and got the following results:

    “Your blog seems slow. It took 3.34 seconds to generate the page.”

    Any idea why things are slow? My website is 8020vision.com

    Also, it said that GZIP was not working (see message below). Is that an issue? How do I correct?

    Feature Supported?
    RSS yes
    RDF no
    Atom no
    Page Gzip no
    Feed Gzip no
    Page 304 no
    Feed 304 yes
    robots.txt yes

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    At godaddy, you cannot install any server side software. Disable preview mode if you wish, as the name suggests it allows you to click the preview button and review setting changes before deploying them so your visitors can see the effects of them. If preview mode is disabled, changes take affect immediately or when the cache is emptied. Shared hosting is going to be arbitrarily slow because there are no dedicated resources for your site. Caching reduces the work that the server has to do, but again, you still do not have resources dedicated to serving your site. So what you can do is use minify and possibly add a content delivery network, but you still will have arbitrarily slow responses from godaddy for your HTML, which is what browsers request first when browsing sites as you know.

    To be clear, I just went to: https://ismyblogworking.com/8020vision.com and saw:

    The boring technical details:

    Web hosting: godaddy.com
    Server support link: godaddy.com
    Server hostname: p3slh051.shr.phx3.secureserver.net
    80 ms page generation time
    240 ms page fetch time
    98 KB/sec effective transfer speed
    261 KB/sec burst download speed
    80 ms feed generation time
    110 ms feed fetch time
    28 KB/sec effective feed transfer speed
    0 KB/sec burst feed download speed
    Page size (uncompressed): 80,444 bytes
    Download size (compressed): 23,977 bytes
    Bandwidth saved by compression: 70.2%
    Content ratio: 54.0%
    Blog If-Modified-Since response: 304
    Feed If-None-Match response: 304
    RSD URL: 8020vision.com
    WLW manifest URL: 8020vision.com
    WordPress theme: Thesis
    Generator: www.remarpro.com 3.0.1
    WordPress version: 3.0.1

    Feature Supported?
    RSS yes
    RDF no
    Atom no
    Page Gzip yes
    Feed Gzip yes
    Page 304 yes
    Feed 304 yes
    robots.txt yes

    Thread Starter Rhand

    (@rhand)

    For me it was just a server permission issue in the end and all is well now.

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    Ok great.

    I just deleted the preview file, emptied the cache and everything was good to go.

    I didn’t need to change the permission on the wp-content directory or anything. Certainly not wise to have the publicly writeable.

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