[Plugin: W3 Total Cache] Severe problem with development version

  • Resolved 72strokes

    (@72strokes)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I recently switched my blog from a LAMP shared server to a LEMP VPS. Consequently I switched to the development version to take advantage of the nginx support. All was fine for the past week or so until I tried disabling the caching functions to see if that was causing a conflict with another plug-in.

    Now, I always have the reload page cache and minify cache message across the top of my dashboard. Under the general screen, minify is enabled (it wasn’t previously due to theme conflicts). If I try to change any of the settings under general (enable or disable) the changes don’t stick, even after clicking “save changes”.

    I tried disabling the plug-in and that resolved the issues, but then of course I lost cdn and caching functionality. So I tried to delete and reinstall the plug-in. But once I uninstalled the plug-in via the dashboard, my site immediately went down and I couldn’t access the dashboard.

    I manually uploaded the w3totalcache plug-in files into the plugins folder and the site came back but I still have the same issues if the plug-in is enabled. Right now I have it enabled so that I’ve got the caching and cdn functionality enabled but I’m not sure how to go about fixing the apparent issues without taking down my site.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter 72strokes

    (@72strokes)

    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?

    Thread Starter 72strokes

    (@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.

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