Debug shows nothing?

  • Resolved kbarnett

    (@kbarnett)


    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, I’m having an issue where I’m not sure if W3 Total Cache is working at all on my site. It appears to have successfully added caching rules to the htaccess file, but when I enable debug mode, nothing related to W3TC shows up on my pages code and tests like Pagespeed are still complaining about inadequate caching for static resources. I’ve tried uninstalling W3TC, deleting the plugin through the WP dashboard, deleting the drop-in files via FTP (under wp-content, I deleted these remaining files: cache folder, w3tc-config folder, db.php; advanced-cache.php and object-cache.php were already deleted when I deleted the plugin), and reinstalling the plugin. I have a multisite on the latest WP version, 6.3.2.

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @kbarnett

    Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help!

    Can you please share the website URL so I can check this for you? It would be great if you could share this because I do not want to speculate and want to be accurate about what the issue may be.

    Also, please provide more details about your hosting environment, and if those static elements that need to be cached are external resources or the files on your server.

    If you have a multisite, let me know if the issue is with the main website or any of the subsites.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter kbarnett

    (@kbarnett)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hi, Marko, the site is https://westmontlibrary.org

    I have object cache, page cache, and browser cache enabled in W3TC. Minify is disabled in the main W3TC settings but enabled through the Cloudflare extension.

    After enabling the Cloudflare extension, it’s caching most things now (images and fonts on our server; we have some assets on our homepage pulled from elsewhere which I don’t expect to be cached), but I don’t understand why nothing shows up in debug mode? I guess I’ll leave it on for a bit so you can see yourself.

    This is consistent across the main site and two subsites.

    Thanks!

    Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Hello @kbarnett

    The Serve static assets with an efficient cache policy problem is related tot he fact that those images are not served from your website. Instead they are served from https://wms.swanlibraries.net/

    W3TC or any other plugin for that matter cannot add cache control or expires header to the files that are not on your server.

    As for the debug, try disabling the HTML minify in the Cloudflare because it may be stripping the comments from the HTML.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter kbarnett

    (@kbarnett)

    2 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, Marko, as stated I am aware it wouldn’t cache anything not on our server. But the good news is once I disabled minify in the actual Cloudflare dashboard on CF’s site it did show me the debug info. So that seems to have resolved the problem with debug and now I’m confident it’s actually working. Thank you for your help!

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