[Plugin: WP Super Cache] httpd.conf or .htaccess for Apache Directives?

This has been resolved. I now have WP Super Cache running in WordPressMU via the vhost file (Apache server configuration instead of .htaccess files). The problem was related to missplaced WP Super Cache directives and obsolete Apache Directives.

Thank you for your help!

I run plain-vanilla WordPress 2.6x and it does not use fancy URIs, so it doesn’t use .htaccess files.

In that case — where there are no rewrite rules anyway — what would be a way to install SuperCache without using .htaccess (don’t want to make Apache work on those unless absolutely necessary) ?

Thanks for any comment or help regarding this!

You can possibly use it in half-on mode, but you won’t get the static caching capabilities.

You could also do what I’ve done (of course you should use WordPress-specific configuration instead of the WordPressMU stuff I have), and configure WP Super Cache using the virtual CONF files (the initial purpose of this thread…).

Following is the end result of my Virtual/vhost httpd CONF file. I’d be grateful for additional tips on improving my httpd CONF file… Here’s my permalink: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/%post_id%/

<VirtualHost *>
  ServerName www.mydomain.com
  ServerAlias mydomain.com
  ServerAdmin [email protected]
  DocumentRoot /path/to/wordpress-mu-X.Y.Z/

  LogLevel warn
  #OLD SCHOOL: Simple Logging
  #ErrorLog /path/to/apache/logs/my_error_log
  #CustomLog /path/to/apache/logs/my_access_log combined

  #NEW HOTNESS: Rotate Logs
  ErrorLog "|/path/to/apache/bin/rotatelogs /path/to/apache/logs/my_error_log.%Y%m%d 86400"
  CustomLog "|/path/to/apache/bin/rotatelogs /path/to/apache/logs/my_access_log.%Y%m%d 86400" combined

  #RewriteLog /path/to/apache/logs/my_rewrite.log
  #RewriteLogLevel 0

  <Directory "/path/to/wordpress-mu-X.Y.Z">
    #DISALLOW/IGNORE .htaccess files
    AllowOverride None

    Order Deny,Allow
    Allow from all

    FileETag INode MTime Size
    #ExpiresActive On
    #ExpiresDefault "modification plus 30 minutes"
    #<FilesMatch "\\.(html|htm|php|jpg|gif|txt)$">
    #Header set Cache-Control "max-age=1h, only-if-cached"
    #</FilesMatch>  

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /

    # BEGIN WPSuperCache
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
    # END WPSuperCache

    #uploaded files
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
    RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

    # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
    RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule . - [L]
    RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
    RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    #RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

    #<IfModule mod_security.c>
    #       <Files async-upload.php>
    #         SecFilterEngine Off
    #         SecFilterScanPOST Off
    #       </Files>
    #</IfModule>
  </Directory>

  # BEGIN supercache
  <Directory "/path/to/wordpress-mu-X.Y.Z/wp-content/cache">
    <IfModule mod_mime.c>
      AddEncoding gzip .gz
      AddType text/html .gz
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_deflate.c>
      SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.gz$ no-gzip
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_headers.c>
      Header set Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate'
    </IfModule>
    <IfModule mod_expires.c>
      ExpiresActive On
      ExpiresByType text/html A300
    </IfModule>
  </Directory>
  # END supercache

</VirtualHost>

IMPORTANT:
If you’re using WordPressMU, you’ll want to compare your CONF entries with the trunk/htaccess.dist file for each release.