Support on Flywheel hosting

@envizage

What is it that does not work?

The plugin should work on all hosting environments. If the hosting company utilizes proprietory caching mechanisms, there is nothing I will do about that, unless someone donates a hosting account.

Hi, Flywheel have an integration with the Fastly CDN. The issue with Flywheel is that there seems to be no way to purge the Fastly CDN from inside the WP Dashboard. Even Flywheel don’t know of a way to do this from inside WordPress.

Flywheel’s “smart refresh” is pretty good at detecting changes to pages and posts which then triggers a purge of both their server cache and CDN cache. Issues arise when making say CSS code changes and these are not detected, hence updates are not seen on the live site.

I installed your plugin to test and activated the logging. However triggering a flush does not generate any logs whatsoever so doesn’t appear to action anything.

I’m more than happy to spin up and donate a Flywheel WordPress install, Flywheel dashboard access and full sFTP access to you if you let me know how. Cheers

While I do appreciate the offer @envizage I am not comfortable doing that. Flywheel, Pantheon, WPEngine, even GoDaddy (among others) all have proprietory code they use for their caching mechanisms.

I do not want to get involved in reverse engineering them for this plugin.

@envizage

I mis-spoke, as I re-read and re-read what you initially posted. The issue isn’t with Flywheel itself, but rather Fastly CDN.

I’ll look through their documentation and see if anything sticks out. In the meantime, as a customer of Flywheel, maybe you can contact them and see if they have any kind of documentation for interfacing with Fastly…

Yeah, I am not so sure this is going to be feasible. I can add it in as another API setting, but if Flywheel won’t give you the Service ID and Token, it isn’t going to matter on their platform.

Otherwise, it’s relatively straight forward. I just created myself an account with Fastly and figured out what’s needed to do it.

The functionality will be in the next update, but again mate, if Flywheel’s not willing to give you the info you’ll need, it’ll be pointless for you.

Appreciate you looking into this Kevin!

I’ll keep working on Flywheel and see if there’s any chance of obtaining a site’s Service ID and Token… They’re not playing ball at the moment! Cheers anyway.

This is inbound. You will have to either create an account on Fastly, and then get your API Key and Service ID, or have your host provide both to you in order for it to work.