Page Cache Clearing By Itself

  • Resolved Nathan

    (@nhadsall)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    For a long time we have suspected that W3 was clearing enhanced page cache by itself. This behavior is confirmed over multiple sites.

    We just saw it in action via command line watch -n.5 "find ./ -name *gzip"

    Files are generated when we view a page, and then they just vanish. Not sure what is causing them to get purged (renamed with _old)

    Again, this is over MULTIPLE sites.

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  • Plugin Contributor Marko Vasiljevic

    (@vmarko)

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello @nhadsall

    Thank you for reaching out and I am happy to help.
    This has been discussed many times in the forums. W3 Total Cache does not clear the cache automatically unless something is not telling W3TC to clear the cache.
    Depending on the settings, in Performance>Page Cache, there is a Purge policy section in which you can select the in which cases the cache will be purged, for example, if the content is published, or updated.
    Now, if you haven’t done anything similar to trigger the purge, there is a chance that the cache was purged by some theme or a plugin calling w3tc_purge_all();
    To determine what may be causing the cache purge, you can check the purge log in Performance>General settings>Debug section(please note that this is a Pro feature)
    One of the examples like yours you can find in this forum topic discusses the Rankath plugin that is called the cache purge.

    I hope this helps!

    Thanks!

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