Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Driving me crazy
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Driving me crazy

 *  Resolved [Martin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rastarr/)
 * (@rastarr)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-driving-me-crazy/)
 * Well, I’ve been at getting this plugin to work for the last few days.
 * I use Hostgator as the hosting provider for the site that doesn’t work – [http://www.geekandjock.com](http://www.geekandjock.com)
   as well as 2 other sites that run under the same account and they are working
   with Super Cache.
 * I’ve got all of them to use the Easy method of PHP and the one that’s giving 
   me trouble is the common ‘ob_start or redirection’ error message, such as below:
 *     ```
       04:36:28 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love mobile browser detected: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/10A403
       04:36:28 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love supercache dir: /home/rastarr/public_html/gajwp/wp-content/cache/supercache/www.geekandjock.com/blogs/thegeek/what-is-love/
       04:36:28 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love No wp-cache file exists. Must generate a new one.
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love In WP Cache Phase 2
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Setting up WordPress actions
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Created output buffer
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Output buffer callback
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Buffer is blank. Output buffer may have been corrupted by another plugin or this is a redirected URL. Look for text 'ob_start' in the files of your plugins directory.
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love No closing html tag. Not caching.
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love wp_cache_shutdown_callback: collecting meta data.
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Sending 'Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"' header.
       04:36:29 /blogs/thegeek/what-is-love Did not write meta file: wp-cache-19ad3a58c6e1648039d03f389725878f.meta ** *0* **
       ```
   
 * Well, I basically disabled every plugin except Super Cache and still got Timestamping
   errors when doing the Test.
 * So my guess is it might have been the theme. I’ve got the same theme running 
   on a local XAMPP instance as well as installing the same theme on one of the 
   other Hostgator sites and switching it over. The theme works with Super Cache.
 * So …. I’ve run out of ideas. Plugins all seem to be fine as does the theme.
 * Is there anyone else that can suggest how I log the flow of SuperCache as to 
   why it doesn’t cache or work? I’m going crazy to fathom the issue.
 * Any help would be hugely appreciated
    Martin
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Martin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rastarr/)
 * (@rastarr)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-driving-me-crazy/#post-3117506)
 * Well, even though I’m now bald from hair pulling, I soldiered on to look for 
   anomolies.
 * I discovered a fix.php file that wasn’t in my local install – maybe some security
   thing I was trying out previously. Anyway, this had an ob_start in it.
 * I basically reinstalled 3.4.2, deleted this weird fix.php file and viola, Super
   Cache kicked in. Goodness, I had a big smile.
 *  Plugin Author [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/)
 * (@donncha)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-driving-me-crazy/#post-3117545)
 * Phew, glad you got that sorted!
 *  Thread Starter [Martin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rastarr/)
 * (@rastarr)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-driving-me-crazy/#post-3117577)
 * haha you and me both, Donncha 🙂
    No idea where the extraneous file came from
   but I’m sure it was due to some past ‘fiddling around’ on my part too. Kudos 
   for such a great plugin too, mate.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-driving-me-crazy/#post-3117577)
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