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W3 Total Cache - Error after fresh installation

YmpkerYmpker Member

Ive been using W3TC with all my wp installs so far and this is the first time I am getting this error after fresh installation.

Any ideas how to fix this? Ive already amended those lines to wp-config.php but Im still getting that error message..

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  • johnnymattjohnnymatt Member
    edited March 2017

    t's a simple permission problem.

  • @johnnymatt said:
    t's a simple permission problem.

    Which permissions would you suppose to change then? For testing purposes Ive already 777 wp-config.php without success :/

  • quickquick Member
    edited March 2017

    @Ympker said:

    @johnnymatt said:
    t's a simple permission problem.

    Which permissions would you suppose to change then? For testing purposes Ive already 777 wp-config.php without success :/

    restart the webserver after the change

  • Do not > @Ympker said:

    @johnnymatt said:
    t's a simple permission problem.

    Which permissions would you suppose to change then? For testing purposes Ive already 777 wp-config.php without success :/

    Really? It means you are allowing everyone to read/write on most important file of WordPress. All you have to do is:

    chown -R user:group /location_to_public_html/
    

    Change user:group and location according and make sure to change permission of wp-config.php back otherwise it would be a huge security issue.

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  • @Ympker look at wp-rocket. W3TC is overkill imho.

  • YmpkerYmpker Member
    edited March 2017

    @quick said:

    @Ympker said:

    @johnnymatt said:
    t's a simple permission problem.

    Which permissions would you suppose to change then? For testing purposes Ive already 777 wp-config.php without success :/

    restart the webserver after the change

    In fact I was going to (to force a refresh of the file) however I am in a shared hosting environment without any means to do so.

    @jetchirag said:
    Do not > @Ympker said:

    @johnnymatt said:
    t's a simple permission problem.

    Which permissions would you suppose to change then? For testing purposes Ive already 777 wp-config.php without success :/

    Really? It means you are allowing everyone to read/write on most important file of WordPress. All you have to do is:

    chown -R user:group /location_to_public_html/
    

    Change user:group and location according and make sure to change permission of wp-config.php back otherwise it would be a huge security issue.

    Woah hold your horses mate. I am very well aware of what 777 is permission whise which is exactly why I have only changed the file to 777 for a matter of seconds to test that.

    @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker look at wp-rocket. W3TC is overkill imho.

    I know about wp rocket but I was not looking for a paid plugin :P Furthermore I have been very happy with W3TC throughout the years.

  • I tkink its a permissions error
    But try this mate https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

    Thanked by 1Ympker
  • @Jorbox said:
    I tkink its a permissions error
    But try this mate https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

    Yeah that would have been my second option but Id prefer W3TC :P
    Thanks buddy :)

    However rn I am wondering if I actually need a caching plugin at all. The webserver is situated in Germany and my site loads in 782ms from Sweden with a Google Pagespeed rank of A (98). Assuming it loads even faster from Germany I guess enabling the plugin alone would cause more pageload than what it's worth.

  • JorboxJorbox Member
    edited March 2017

    @Ympker said:

    @Jorbox said:
    I tkink its a permissions error
    But try this mate https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

    Yeah that would have been my second option but Id prefer W3TC :P
    Thanks buddy :)

    However rn I am wondering if I actually need a caching plugin at all. The webserver is situated in Germany and my site loads in 782ms from Sweden with a Google Pagespeed rank of A (98). Assuming it loads even faster from Germany I guess enabling the plugin alone would cause more pageload than what it's worth.

    Caching is important for heavy websites, wordpress with +15 plugins, but for fast websites may result the same

    Thanked by 1Ympker
  • @Jorbox said:

    @Ympker said:

    @Jorbox said:
    I tkink its a permissions error
    But try this mate https://srd.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-super-cache/

    Yeah that would have been my second option but Id prefer W3TC :P
    Thanks buddy :)

    However rn I am wondering if I actually need a caching plugin at all. The webserver is situated in Germany and my site loads in 782ms from Sweden with a Google Pagespeed rank of A (98). Assuming it loads even faster from Germany I guess enabling the plugin alone would cause more pageload than what it's worth.

    Caching is important for heavy websites, wordpress with +15 plugins, but for fast websites may result the same

    Exactly and I have about 2-3 active plugins + 5 medium sized images. The whole site equals a couple of mb :P

  • Caching is important for heavy websites, wordpress with +15 plugins, but for fast websites may result the same

    really ? are you sure ? you have just said a "blasphemy" :) try to do some tests only with and without opcache. After that tell me the difference ...

  • @johnnymatt said:

    Caching is important for heavy websites, wordpress with +15 plugins, but for fast websites may result the same

    really ? are you sure ? you have just said a "blasphemy" :) try to do some tests only with and without opcache. After that tell me the difference ...

    My website size equals a mere 500kb and loads at 800ms. At this rate any caching plugin Ive enabled has increased load time to 2 seconds which is why I disabled it again.

  • FalzoFalzo Member

    if it's a small site and even on shared hosting go without. you never know what things maybe already implemented on the host, like reverse caching proxy, php opcache or even mod_pagespeed ... sometime too much things will mess with another and just make things worse.

    Thanked by 1Ympker
  • johnnymattjohnnymatt Member
    edited March 2017

    Ympker said: My website size equals a mere 500kb and loads at 800ms. At this rate any caching plugin Ive enabled has increased load time to 2 seconds which is why I disabled it again.

    :/ opcache just work as soon as you enable it > you dont need wordpress plugins

    https://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-opcache/

  • @johnnymatt said:

    Ympker said: My website size equals a mere 500kb and loads at 800ms. At this rate any caching plugin Ive enabled has increased load time to 2 seconds which is why I disabled it again.

    :/ opcache just work as soon as you enable it > you dont need wordpress plugins

    https://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-opcache/

    Im on shared hosting though :)

  • Sry i didnt understand that :) My apologies :)

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  • @johnnymatt said:
    Sry i didnt understand that :) My apologies :)

    I wasnt precise either :P

  • @Ympker https://github.com/wp-media/wp-rocket code is on github and if you pm me, can give you a free version. I can give a setup anyways that performs better as well, consider some of the plugins I wrote.

  • @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker https://github.com/wp-media/wp-rocket code is on github and if you pm me, can give you a free version. I can give a setup anyways that performs better as well, consider some of the plugins I wrote.

    Haha thanks mate but in fact I think Im just fine with how the website pageload is rn :)
    800ms cant complain^^

  • @Ympker whats the URL. Server response is only one part of speed, there are many others.

  • @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker whats the URL. Server response is only one part of speed, there are many others.

    nicolas-loew.de still WIP though

  • pcfreak30pcfreak30 Member
    edited March 2017

    @Ympker https://gtmetrix.com/reports/nicolas-loew.de/TO4v6W68 still has a lot that can be improved.

  • @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker https://gtmetrix.com/reports/nicolas-loew.de/TO4v6W68 still has a lot that can be improved.

    Yeah as I said it's WIP :) Just was gonna say Im not really looking to install a caching plugin?

  • FalzoFalzo Member
    edited March 2017

    @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker https://gtmetrix.com/reports/nicolas-loew.de/TO4v6W68 still has a lot that can be improved.

    not really. most of that YSlow score malus relates to the version tags of css/js which causes expire header/Etags not set correctly...

    you can remove those easily by adding some lines to functions.php - https://www.codementor.io/tips/8369241717/remove-version-number-from-css-js-in-wordpress-theme

    no need to do much more, and even this is more of a cosmetic change, as it only may help to cache the css/js properly on the client - shouldn't have a big impact on that small site anyways.

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  • @Falzo said:

    @pcfreak30 said:
    @Ympker https://gtmetrix.com/reports/nicolas-loew.de/TO4v6W68 still has a lot that can be improved.

    not really. most of that YSlow score malus relates to the version tags of css/js which causes expire header/Etags not set correctly...

    you can remove those easily by adding some lines to functions.php - https://www.codementor.io/tips/8369241717/remove-version-number-from-css-js-in-wordpress-theme

    no need to do much more, and even this is more of a cosmetic change, as it only may help to cache the css/js properly on the client - shouldn't have a big impact on that small site anyways.

    Speed matters and I can tell the site needs work speed wise. It's a speciality of mine, and I can tell it's not at a standard I would deem acceptable, no matter the size of the site. Just giving out my advisement.

  • FalzoFalzo Member

    @pcfreak30 said:

    Speed matters and I can tell the site needs work speed wise. It's a speciality of mine, and I can tell it's not at a standard I would deem acceptable, no matter the size of the site. Just giving out my advisement.

    I call bullshit. :-P

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  • Typically, most WordPress documents have permission for reading only 444. Here, you need to change the document permission to 644. Now just refresh a page, there is no awful notice. Everything goes easily.

    To change the permission, you can use cPanel or FileZilla or another FTP customer.

  • pcfreak30pcfreak30 Member
    edited March 2017

    @Falzo said:

    @pcfreak30 said:

    Speed matters and I can tell the site needs work speed wise. It's a speciality of mine, and I can tell it's not at a standard I would deem acceptable, no matter the size of the site. Just giving out my advisement.

    I call bullshit. :-P

    What's the problem? I speed up wordpress sites on a near weekly basis now and have results to show for that. @Falzo's site speed AND rating is bad, and @Falzo's call if they want to accept that for their users.

  • FalzoFalzo Member

    pcfreak30 said: I speed up wordpress sites on a near weekly basis now and have results to show for that.

    then go ahead and show us.

    curious what site you are talking about...

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