[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Exclude a directory from the htaccess rules

Look under the Page Cache settings page. There is a section to specify pages to never cache. Put “forum” in there on its own line.

That should work.

OR /forum/*

I tried but it doesn’t work.
The option add this to htaccess:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\/wp-admin\/|\/xmlrpc.php|\/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail)\.php|wp-.*\.php|index\.php|/forum/*|forum) [NC,OR]

I think I have to use \/forum\/ instead of /forum/*.

Now I try and let you know.

No, also with \/forum\/ the cached pages are not refreshed by the browser.
Maybe I have to set the exclusion also in other part. I’ll try.

Make sure to purge your cache and then refresh your browser at least two times. Then see if it works.

maybe add the /forum/* to the “Never Cache” sections in the database cache and object cache settings area also?

No, nothing, I addedd \/forum\/ to all exclusion fields, but I always have cache problems.

I have found that the problem is the option
Viewing: Browser Cache Settings -> HTML -> Set expires header
With it active, my forum has the refresh issue, without it all is fine.

So, how can I exlude my forum directory?

The part of htaccess file that is involved in this problem is within <IfModule mod_mime.c>:

AddType text/html .html .htm
    AddType text/richtext .rtf .rtx
    AddType image/svg+xml .svg .svgz
    AddType text/plain .txt
    AddType text/xsd .xsd
    AddType text/xsl .xsl
    AddType text/xml .xml

and within <IfModule mod_expires.c>:

ExpiresByType text/html A360000
    ExpiresByType text/richtext A360000
    ExpiresByType image/svg+xml A360000
    ExpiresByType text/plain A360000
    ExpiresByType text/xsd A360000
    ExpiresByType text/xsl A360000
    ExpiresByType text/xml A360000

(theese are the codes added by the option Set expires header for html content).

Did anyone ever find a solution to this? I have EXACTLY the same problem, but definitely don’t want to turn html browser caching off my wordpress site.

No, I have had to disable the feature.
If anyone else have the solution, please, write it.

Sorry, unfortunately there’s no way to do that “exclusion” in the plugin.

Is there a definitive answer here – all we want to do is affirmatively *exclude* the forum subdirectory from browser / page caching.

You can add ExpiresActive off directive to .htaccess directive you need to be excluded from global policies W3TC sets.