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I figured out what the issue was for me actually, it turned out to be a problem with the permissions on my site that was causing jquery to not be served up properly. I detailed it in a response to bug 29520.

Please enlighten me! I’m having the exact same issue.

Nope, I can’t check it out and it doesn’t show up in the web-browsable SVN. Looks like somebody forgot to tag it.

Yeah. As I said before I don’t have direct control over the hosting provider, Verio is definitely not my first choice.

I did manage to get WP-Cache working under php safe_mode on my NearlyFreeSpeech.net site by changing the group of all files to web. I’m going to discuss this with the organization and see if they will consider changing hosts.

Thanks for the help so far. If anyone has further advice on how to make WordPress as stable and reliable as possible, please enlighten me.

(I’m considering setting the expiry time for pages to be quite long- months-, and having the updater just delete the cached file via the web interface when the page needs to be updated.)

Hm, allright. I’ll take your word for it.

This ticket seems to imply that cache can be made to work under safe-mode with the right configuration, but the more I learn about safe_mode, the more I think this isn’t possible on my current setup (and now I’m not sure if they mean WP-Cache or the internal one.)

I’ll talk to the Nearlyfreespeech guys about disabling safe_mode and do what’s described here instead, but my guess is that they will be reticent to make such a sweeping change without more information.

In the meantime I’ll check out some of the other hosts mentioned previously.

Yeah, tell me about it. ??

At least they have a web interface for unzipping tarballs or else I would have had to upload wordpress file-by file. Uugh.

Nearlyfreespeech.net seems to be working fine so far, but I ran into an issue when trying to activate WP-Cache because they have their PHP running in safe_mode. I guess there is a way to configure it so that the cache works in safe mode but I couldn’t find any info.

However, I did find a thread about a WordPress internal cache that only works when safe_mode is on.

I’ll fiddle with this later when I get a chance, but if anyone knows of any relevant documentation/resolved support requests on either of these (I saw a codex article but it seems pretty brief) please point me to them. Much appreciated.

Sounds good. My only remaining concern is that in the event of a database failure that concurs with a cache expiration, the site will become inacessible.

I just set up a trial account with Nearlyfreespeech.net and registered my own dedicated MySQL process so hopefully this will be less of a problem if I can convince the management to switch hosting providers.

I agree. If it were up to me, I’d move the site to Nearlyfreespeech.net, or even a box wired up at home. Right now we’re using one of the lower-end plans from Verio, I think it’s a shared FreeBSD box or something.

I just installed WP-Cache (and took the opportunity to upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1). This seems good, however I’m looking for the most rock-solid configuration I can possibly get. Is there a way, for instance, to ensure that cached pages will be served even if WP can’t connect to the database? Even if the cached page has expired, it’s better than serving an error.

As it stands, I’ve got about a week to come up with the most stable solution possible and convince them to stay with a WordPress backend for the site. Thanks for the help so far, any further assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, WP-Cache looks like good news. I will check it out.

Does it work even in the event that WordPress can’t connect to the database?