W3TC Warning

Since Litespeed has an awesome crawler precache (only for dedicated servers), I need to precache several pages in advance on a server that won’t activate this feature – on a shared server. So I reactivated W3TC for both extended minify (there’s is better than LS for some reason), memcache db items (LS doesn’t support this option) and for our sitemap (under the page cache settings) – which is the main reason to use it. I need a precache and can’t seem to find another way to get a basic crawler than with W3TC. Grrrr.

However, even though the checkbox for “page cache” isn’t checked, I am still getting the LS error:

Please disable/deactivate any other Full Page Cache solutions that are currently being used. LiteSpeed Cache does work with other cache solutions, but only their non-page caching offerings—such as minifying css/js files. For this scenario only, please uncheck “Check Advanced Cache” in LiteSpeed Cache settings.

Any chance this is in error?

My advance cache file reads the following:

<?php

/**
 * W3 Total Cache advanced cache module
 */
if (!defined('ABSPATH')) {
    die();
}

/**
 * Abort W3TC loading if WordPress is upgrading
 */
if (defined('WP_INSTALLING') && WP_INSTALLING)
    return;

if (!defined('W3TC_IN_MINIFY')) {
    if (!defined('W3TC_DIR')) {
        define('W3TC_DIR', (defined('WP_PLUGIN_DIR') ? WP_PLUGIN_DIR : WP_CONTENT_DIR . '/plugins') . '/a2-w3-total-cache');
    }

    if (!@is_dir(W3TC_DIR) || !file_exists(W3TC_DIR . '/inc/define.php')) {
        if (defined('WP_ADMIN')) { // lets don't show error on front end
            echo(sprintf('<strong>W3 Total Cache Error:</strong> some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove <strong>%s</strong>.', __FILE__));
        }
    } else {
        require_once W3TC_DIR . '/inc/define.php';

        $redirect = w3_instance('W3_Redirect');
        $redirect->process();

        $config = w3_instance('W3_Config');
        if ($config->get_boolean('pgcache.enabled')) {
            $w3_pgcache = w3_instance('W3_PgCache');
            $w3_pgcache->process();
        }
    }
}

Hoping for either outcome by LS:

1) There is a setting I can select that KEEPS LS CACHING… while removing this wraning.
2) LS would just find a way to incorporate some advance precaching (call it PreCache Lite) that doesn’t scan all the time – just certain sets of files. Again, this is available in W3TC and WP Rocket. Again, without LS support for a basic version of this, I need to use some of these others.

Of course, open to other options. I really didn’t want to go back to W3TC since LS has solved many of our basic issues. Thanks for your input.

One of your biggest fans,
Dave