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We have also seen a spike since updating to 4.2.2 — it all dates to within an hour of that update. We trimmed the database and optimized the MySql and still are seeing spikes.

Did you ever find an answer to your problem, @beware? Thanks

Thanks, @nickth — I probably should have done that; what I wound up doing was copying the file over from my development site. (To backup: I updated the development site first and had no problems with the W3TC update. Then when I tried to update on the main site, I had problems (see above) and wound up manually deactivating the site by renaming some file names with “zzz” in front of them. After a few hours I realized that a) my site was only showing the cached version (kind of a problem since I had just deactivated that plugin!) and b) the main difference between the dev site and my main site was that my dev site did not have the Cloudflare plugin running.

So I deactivated the Cloudflare plugin on the main site. Then copied the /cache/tmp folder (actually the whole /cache folder, which was missing entirely) from my dev site, uploaded it to the proper folder, and then renamed everything I had changed, and then activated the W3TC plugin from the wpadmin page… and sure enough it immediately told me I should delete the Cloudflare plugin; that it was not needed with W3TC. (Will have to research to decide which one should go; I agree with you entirely that this is a horrible user experience.)

ANYWAY: Cloudflare plugin is deactivated, W3TC is running fine (I had to add some code to a .htaccess file though) and my site now seems to be up and running.

FWIW: I’m not saying that what I did was the RIGHT thing, but in case it’s useful to anyone else desperately Googling and trying to fix their site, I thought I’d record my experience here.

I’m getting a wacky error message that is telling me in part to update those two files, but I can’t find the first one in cPanel. Help! This is the error message in full:

“Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘FileOperationException’ with message ‘/home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/w3tc-config/master.php could not be created, please run following command:

• <strong style=”color: #f00;”>chmod 777 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/cache/tmp
• <strong style=”color: #f00;”>chmod 777 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/w3tc-config

‘ in /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/inc/functions/activation.php:127 Stack trace: #0 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/ConfigWriter.php(159): w3_throw_on_write_error(‘/home/corporet/…’, Array) #1 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/Config.php(71): W3_ConfigWriter->save() #2 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/CloudFlare.php(174): W3_Config->save() #3 /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/lib/W3/Plugin/CloudFlare.php(52): W3_CloudFlare->update_ip_ranges() #4 /h in /home/corporet/public_html/wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/inc/functions/activation.php on line 127″

Oh! Wait! Just noticed that my paragraphs aren’t wrapping, for some reason — so you only get the first line of the graf and then it runs off the page. Hmmmn.

(And, I should note, I wouldn’t mind having the option to have multiple, separate bbpress forums, or at least one other installation of WP running.

Thank you for the reply, @ipstenu. Maybe I misspoke — my ultimate goal is to keep the blog and forum separate so if one goes down, the other is unaffected — or if one is affected by malware, the other is unaffected. Would multisite accomplish that?

oh, never mind, just figured out how to hide it with display:none; thianks!

As for me, I disabled the plugin but got shut down again — after some investigation (the tip to look at my access logs was very helpful, thank you) I decided my blog had just grown too big for shared hosting. (Good problem to have, I guess!) So we moved to a dedicated server last night.

I’ll report back if any other plugin related problems, but thank you re: access logs and stuff. ??

I’m having a similar problem and have been trying to find a solution — I cached some important pages and now can’t uncache them even if I delete the plugin — I also couldn’t delete them (although that’s not an ideal solution since then I’ll lose all SEO). Does anyone know how to uncache individual pages?

thanks!

Aaaaaaah — I figured it out. I had forgotten that I had started using the MaxPress Affiliate Ninja plugin, which I bought many moons ago and just started using. After I deactivated that the problem went away instantly.

I reactivated a plugin that puts a favicon on my site, maybe on Tuesday or Wed. But that’s it…

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