mulicheng

Just wanted to say that I’ve had this problem for a while now too with Recaptcha v3. I originally thought I had some other problem with my theme or php installation or something because the contact forms just wouldn’t work. After fiddling with things, and turning off recaptcha though, they immediately started working.

Worth noting that they were working for quite some time without me changing anything. I don’t know what Google or other WordPress update may or may not have caused the new failure. Would love a solution that doesn’t require me to go to a previous version of the plugin or old recaptcha system

Hey Donncha:

I noticed that after a period of time, the .htaccess file was missing in /wp-content/cache

I’m wondering if the plugin deleted it as part of a cache cleanup or something.

Edit: I just confirmed this on my test blog. After a period of no activity, I check the cache directory:

>ls -la
total 32
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 Nov  9 09:46 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root   apache 4096 Nov  8 09:57 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache   81 Nov  9 09:40 .htaccess
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Nov  9 14:03 meta
--snipped wp-cached content files--

Now, the directory listing after I request the home page:

>ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 4 apache apache 4096 Nov  9 14:03 .
drwxrwxr-x 5 root   apache 4096 Nov  8 09:57 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Nov  9 14:03 meta
--snipped content files--

The .htaccess is indeed being removed.

A side note, I’m not sure if I needed to enable or disable the plugin for any changes to take effect. That my have been my problem but I didn’t get a .htaccess file automatically created either.

Edit: I was looking in the supercache directory and the .htaccess is in the cache directory.

-Dennis

My solution:

<Location /wp-content/cache/supercache/>
AddEncoding x-gzip .gz
AddType text/html .gz
</Location>

The complete post:
http://allmybrain.com/2007/11/08/making-wp-super-cache-gzip-compression-work/