Title: W3 Total Cache Conflict Since Converting to HTTPS
Last modified: March 21, 2017

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# W3 Total Cache Conflict Since Converting to HTTPS

 *  [Chris Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scapido/)
 * (@scapido)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-conflict-since-converting-to-https/)
 * I just converted my site over from http to https but now I have a problem, seemingly
   with w3 TotalCache.
 * If I purge the page cache, all formatting/layout is lost on a number (not all)
   of my site’s pages.
 * My hosting company said that I can fix this in C-Panel by going to the wp-content
   file and renaming a file called ‘cache’ to, for example, ‘cachex’.
 * I did this and it worked.
 * They also suggested that I delete W3 Total Cache then reinstall it and that ‘
   should’ fix it permanently. i.e. the fresh install should help w3 total cache
   to know that I am now on https.
 * I did as they suggested, but as soon as I reinstalled it, it created a new file
   called Cache inside wp-content and, once again, all formatting/layout was lost
   on a number of pages.
 * Any suggestions as to how to fix this would be appreciated.

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 *  [nigro.simone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nigrosimone/)
 * (@nigrosimone)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-conflict-since-converting-to-https/#post-8955567)
 * [@scapido](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scapido/) have you checked the
   option “Cache SSL (https) requests” in the page cache settings?
 *  Thread Starter [Chris Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scapido/)
 * (@scapido)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-conflict-since-converting-to-https/#post-8963564)
 * [@nigro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nigro/).simone Sorry, only just 
   seen your reply. No I haven’t checked that option – didn’t realise I had that
   setting. I’ll report back here if that works. Here’s hoping! Thanks a lot, I 
   really appreciate your input! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Chris Thomas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scapido/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/w3-total-cache-conflict-since-converting-to-https/#post-8963564)
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