Title: [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Multisite not always creating index.html
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP Super Cache] Multisite not always creating index.html

 *  [DeeJay176](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deejay176/)
 * (@deejay176)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-multisite-not-always-creating-indexhtml/)
 * I’m running on a multi-site setup (latest production release of WP Super Cache
   Plugin) and sometimes the index.html file gets created, yet other directories
   contain only .tmp files with long file names.
 * I have a cron script that I like to copy off one of the .html’s ever 30 minutes
   for a landing page and suddenly it just stopped working and that directory now
   contains only .tmp files and a few subdirectories. The subdirectories have .html
   files in them but they are not necessarily current content.
 * I’ve run debug but can’t determine what it’s telling me.
 * Any ideas on why this might occur? Running WP 3.4.2 and plugin V1.1
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/)

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 *  [hawaiiwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiarlen/)
 * (@hiarlen)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-multisite-not-always-creating-indexhtml/#post-3068919)
 * Did you make sure you enabled the Multisite setting in the plugin settings? It’s
   in the Plugins tab of WP Super Cache.
 *  Thread Starter [DeeJay176](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deejay176/)
 * (@deejay176)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-multisite-not-always-creating-indexhtml/#post-3068960)
 * Hi Hiarlen thanks for responding! If you are referring to the domain mapping 
   setting – I’m not using it. We use the Sitewide Tags solution to create the primary
   blog.
 * I did find the problem late last night forgot to update this thread. There’s 
   a checkbox on the Advanced screen for Extra Homepage checks. I found a comment
   deep inside a forum post where Donncha suggested that sometimes this could cause
   Homepage caching to stop. Well, that was the ticket – it stopped homepage caching
   on some (but apparently not all) subsites for us.
 * I also think in doing all this that I found a solution for the occasional post
   showing up as a homepage, and it’s related to the complexity of one’s .htaccess
   file. If you have significant rewrite conditions outside of the standard WP MU.
   htaccess entries, it’s impossible to tell from the instructions where the WP 
   Super Cache .htaccess modifications should reside.
 * I’ve tried the WPSC entries both BEFORE the rewrites and AFTER. Our current config
   has WPSC BEFORE the rewrites and the site is a bit quirkier than when they were
   AFTER the rewrites — but before the standard WP MU entries.
 * Overall the plugin works but there are definitely quirks and bugs. My favorite
   is when you try and install supplemental caching (like xcache or APC) and it 
   either (1) scrambles the database until removed, or (2) interrupts the GC routine
   and causes actual WP-CRON ‘code’ to appear on all the sites and dashboards, even
   to logged out viewers, as the WP-CRON job gets fouled and the only way to fix
   it is to ssh into the server and manually delete the WPSC directory. Had that
   happen twice so far.
 *  [hawaiiwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiarlen/)
 * (@hiarlen)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-multisite-not-always-creating-indexhtml/#post-3069008)
 * Very interesting. You must have configuration that’s not the standard. Thanks
   for sharing.
 *  Thread Starter [DeeJay176](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deejay176/)
 * (@deejay176)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-super-cache-multisite-not-always-creating-indexhtml/#post-3069045)
 * No Hiarlen I don’t think we are ‘non standard’ – I think that WPSC is not a pure
   solution, especially for active sites. It is free, so I’m not complaining just
   stating the facts.
 * W3TC is an alternative but has it’s own glitches, we use many different solutions
   on many different sites all trying to find the perfect strategy. The answer is
   it’s all experimentation, and that’s not really a strategy.
 * Apache vs. Nginx, W3TC vs WPSC vs Batcache vs. whatever, Xcache vs. APC vs Memcached.
   The realization becomes that WP is not really suited for most active environments
   unless heavily customized, and this is contrary to how it’s advertised. As you
   grow, the weaknesses will jump out of the corners and challenge you at every 
   level.

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