Title: Deleted CSS files return code 200 Last modified: August 9, 2019 --- # Deleted CSS files return code 200 * Resolved [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/) * (@grubyy) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/) * Hello, * I have been using the LS Cache server for several months, currently v2.9.8.4. Generally your plugin works very nice, but I found one problem, that could be wasting googlebot crawl budget. If I delete all cache in advanced options or I choose option clear all LS Cache – CSS / JS, deleted, empty files still return the HTTP 200 code. After a few minutes in cache catalog they appear again instead returns the 404 code. The second fact, if I change file name, for example: currently: domain.com/min/51573.css after: domain.com/min/test.css After a few minutes file test.css will apear in cache directory on my server. In the server log files you can see that Googlebot visits old files/url adresses from its memory as long as they retun 200 status code. There are a two solutions, deleted files should retun 404 code or better, recources should have constant url adress for all the time. * How can i fix it? Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/) * (@qtwrk) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/#post-11818987) * Hi, * Could you please check the HTTP header on these /min/XXXXX file ? * In certain case , this file will be served from server cache system , instead of load as static file from /wp-content/cache/css(js)/xxxxx. * Also could you please try “purge all” and/or “purge LS cache” button and see if this also happens ? * Best regards, * Thread Starter [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/) * (@grubyy) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/#post-11819082) * Thanks for a quick reply. * I checked HTTP headers with a several tools and all of them shows that codes status are 200. HTTP / 1.0 200 OK => Content-Type => text / css; charset = utf- 8 Cache-Control => public, max-age = 2592000 Expires => Sun, 08 Sep 2019 21:06: 24 GMT Etag => “33676-1565384784 ;;;” X-Litespeed-Cache => miss Content-Length => 0 Date => Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:06:24 GMT Server => LiteSpeed Alt-Svc => quic = “: 443”; a = 2592000; v = “35,39,43,44” Connection => close * If i check random file name /min/xyz.css its also 200. * I used “purge all” and / or “purge LS cache” options and after that cache directory on my server was empty for a several minutes. I checked that CSS file in header tag has a new name and after 10 minutes i checked status for previous file – it was still 200. Ten minutes later previous CSS file was apperead, but it’s acctually empty (0KB). * Edit: It’s the same situation with JS files. - This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/). - This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/). - This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/). * Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/) * (@qtwrk) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/#post-11819097) * Hi, * Yes, I see that random /min/xxxxx.css returns 200. * I will run some test and check. * Best regards, * Plugin Support [qtwrk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/qtwrk/) * (@qtwrk) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/#post-11819241) * Hi, * Please edit file **/wp-content/plugins/litespeed-cache/inc/optimize.class.php** * add following code before line 201 * ``` if ( ! $content ) { LiteSpeed_Cache_Log::debug( '[Optm] Static file generation bypassed due to empty' ) ; return ; } ``` * Then empty file or deleted ones should be 404 * Please let us know how it goes. * Best regards, * Thread Starter [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/) * (@grubyy) * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleted-css-files-return-code-200/#post-11819711) * Hi, * I added your code in the file. After that, I changed the file name to a random combination and now they return 404, and it looks like that random files have not been added in cache directory. * Thanks a lot! - This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Grubyy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grubyy/). 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