Clearing cache?

General General Questions
1

Is there a command to clear the cache from the front end? What about from the admin section? Or is it only possible through ftp?



can we turn OFF the caching?

2

You can do it a couple of ways. The easiest is to enter https://www.your_site.com/admin.php&cc into your browser. To make it even easier next time, save that in your Favorites/Bookmarks and/or add it to the “Quick menu”.



You can also delete the files /var/cache/ and /var/compiled/ via ftp or your file manager.



As far as turning off cacheing, I doubt it.

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[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]You can do it a couple of ways. The easiest is to enter https://www.your_site.com/admin.php&cc into your browser. To make it even easier next time, save that in your Favorites/Bookmarks and/or add it to the “Quick menu”.



You can also delete the files /var/cache/ and /var/compiled/ via ftp or your file manager.



As far as turning off cacheing, I doubt it.[/QUOTE]

That’s actually www.yoursite.com/admin.php[COLOR=“Red”]?[/COLOR]cc. I know this because I just made the same mistake last week.



You can play with the settings below to see how they affect speed. In /config.local.php, find:

// Tweaks
$config['tweaks'] = array (
'js_compression' => false, // enables compession to reduce size of javascript files
'check_templates' => true, // disables templates checking to improve template engine speed
'inline_compilation' => true, // compiles nested templates in one file
);



Bob

4

I did not know that Bob. I was just relaying what we were told in the beginning. I usually delete them manually.



Have you tried any of the tweaks? If so, what kind of results did you have?

5

[quote name=‘Tool Outfitters’]I did not know that Bob. I was just relaying what we were told in the beginning. I usually delete them manually.[/QUOTE]

It got me too. The ‘&cc’ works when appended to a URL which already includes a ‘?dispatch’. From the admin home, you just use ‘?cc’.


[QUOTE]Have you tried any of the tweaks? If so, what kind of results did you have?[/QUOTE]

I have not tried yet. Who’s gonna go first? :slight_smile:



It is interesting that they do not have JS compression enabled by default.



There are additional settings in the /lib/templater/Smarty.class.php for the courageous. I am puzzled because of this:

/**
* This enables template caching.
*


    *
  • 0 = no caching

    • *
  • 1 = use class cache_lifetime value

    • *
  • 2 = use cache_lifetime in cache file

    • *

* @var integer
*/
var $caching = 0;



This seems to imply that Smarty is not caching its templates.



Bob

6

Interesting indeed. I really don’t need to play with it…mine loads in under a second already. :smiley: Mind you, I do not have a lot of the addons installed but I have about 600 categories with a little over 19,000 products.



Edit: 536 categories and 19162 products to be exact.

7

and for dummies why and when do we need to clear the cache ?

8

[quote name=‘Page’]and for dummies why and when do we need to clear the cache ?[/QUOTE]



well… today… i tried to log onto the site as well as the admin panel… and the site refused to load. I checked my ftp and there were over 12,000 files in the /var/cache folder. I cleared it, and the site worked perfectly again.

9

After putting www.yoursite.com/admin.php?cc. into the browser am I right in thinking i should just be getting a 404 error displaying but the work on clearing the cache has been done.

10

[quote name=‘Page’]After putting www.yoursite.com/admin.php?cc. into the browser am I right in thinking i should just be getting a 404 error displaying but the work on clearing the cache has been done.[/QUOTE]

You should be returned to the Admin Dashboard. Have you renamed your admin.php?



I am not sure if the files are cleared or not when you get the 404. You can check by using your FTP client to see if /var/compiled/customer exists - it should not exist if you check immediately after clearing cache and before visiting the storefront.



Bob

11

You should be returned only if your Admin is admin.php :wink: and not somethingelse.php

12

[quote name=‘Noman’]You should be returned only if your Admin is admin.php :wink: and not somethingelse.php[/QUOTE]

My admin.php is renamed and I am still returned to the the same URL in 2.0.12.



Bob

13

I just put a link in my quick links box. The link I put was:


http://www.my-domain.com/my-admin.php?dispatch=categories.manage&cc



This just brings me back to my categories page each time I clear the cache.



Brandon

14

[quote name=‘jobosales’]You should be returned to the Admin Dashboard. Have you renamed your admin.php?



Bob[/QUOTE]



Doh - :oops: