How do I enable file caching?

[ChemicalKicks]

So the obvious question what would you recommend adding to the config to enable caching?

 

[Kevin]

It's for something else in the future...

Ooh, now I'm curious!

On a serious note, though, I'm really glad that the topic of enabling the filecache came up... the instructions from Cezz worked perfect (using internal_data/cache) and will come in handy in the next few weeks with another conversion.

 

[Kevin]

"/var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/internal_data/cache" should I have a / on the end of that?

No trailing slash for me. If that full path is correct, did you chmod the folder to 777 to make sure it is writable?

 

[Paul B]

What path format you using

Just this:

$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir' => 'internal_data/cache');

I'm using XAMPP on localhost so no need to chmod.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

No trailing slash for me. If that full path is correct, did you chmod the folder to 777 to make sure it is writable?

Bah, was bound to be something obvious. I hadn't changed the folder permissions, I'll give that a bash.

Just this:

$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir' => 'internal_data/cache');

I'm using XAMPP on localhost so no need to chmod.

No full path for you but you're doing this local yeah?

 

[ibnesayeed]

It's for something else in the future...

Let me make a guess (I know, I am wrong!). It might be something like archived page caching. (in VB, they have an archive friendly representation of all the pages).

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Bugger.

Using the following

$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';
$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir'  => '/var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/internal_data/cache');

$config['cache']['frontend'] = 'Core';
$config['cache']['frontendOptions'] = array('caching'  =>  true,
                                            'automatic_serialization' => true,
                                            'lifetime'    => 1800

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/library/config.php on line 39

?

 

[Kevin]

Bugger.

Using the following

$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';
$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir'  => '/var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/internal_data/cache');

$config['cache']['frontend'] = 'Core';
$config['cache']['frontendOptions'] = array('caching'  =>  true,
                                            'automatic_serialization' => true,
                                            'lifetime'    => 1800

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/library/config.php on line 39

?

Looks like you may have missed the closing bracket...

);

... that should be the last line.

 

[ibnesayeed]

Bugger.

Using the following

$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';
$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir'  => '/var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/internal_data/cache');

$config['cache']['frontend'] = 'Core';
$config['cache']['frontendOptions'] = array('caching'  =>  true,
                                            'automatic_serialization' => true,
                                            'lifetime'    => 1800

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' in /var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/library/config.php on line 39

?

Don't you think, you are missing closing bracket ")" after 1800 in the last line.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

hmmmmmm closing the bracket doesn't work either.

 

[Kevin]

hmmmmmm closing the bracket doesn't work either.

Error or nothing going in the folder?

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Is their any point doing this or can you see problems doing this if I'm serving content from static.the-sps.org, maybe that's what is causing the problem?

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Error or nothing going in the folder?

Both mate.

Nothing going in the folder and the same syntax error above except it's switched lines.

 

[Paul B]

Now running on my live site

 

[Trekkan]

);

 

[Kevin]

Both mate.

Nothing going in the folder and the same syntax error above except it's switched lines.

You've got a bad file yet.
Here's a copy of the my config file (minus some values of course)...

<?php

$config['db']['host'] = 'localhost';
$config['db']['port'] = '3306';
$config['db']['username'] = '{REMOVED}';
$config['db']['password'] = '{REMOVED}';
$config['db']['dbname'] = '{REMOVED}';
$config['superAdmins'] = '1';

// Cache
$config['cache']['enabled'] = true;
$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';
$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir'  => '{REMOVED}');
$config['cache']['frontend'] = 'Core';
$config['cache']['frontendOptions'] = array('caching'  =>  true,
                                            'automatic_serialization' => true,
                                            'lifetime'    => 1800
);

if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '{REMOVED}')
{
    $config['debug'] = true;
}

 

[ChemicalKicks]

ha got it working, LIKES FOR EVERYONE.

Right so first time the error was caused by not having that closing bracket ");" anywhere, next I think I placed it wrong and somehow was missing a "/" in the fullpath. Site is working now with that code in the config but the cache folder is empty.

 

[Paul B]

Refresh a few pages and then your FTP app, it will then show the files.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Here's mine.

<?php

$config['db']['host'] = '********';
$config['db']['port'] = '3306';
$config['db']['username'] = '********';
$config['db']['password'] = '********';
$config['db']['dbname'] = '********';
$config['superAdmins'] = '1';
 
$config['externalDataPath'] = 'data';
$config['externalDataUrl'] = 'http://static.the-sps.org/data';
$config['javaScriptUrl'] = 'http://static.the-sps.org/js';

$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';
$config['cache']['backendOptions'] = array('cache_dir'  => '/var/sites/t/the-sps.org/public_html/internal_data/cache');

$config['cache']['frontend'] = 'Core';
$config['cache']['frontendOptions'] = array('caching'  =>  true,
                                            'automatic_serialization' => true,
                                            'lifetime'    => 1800);

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Refresh a few pages and then your FTP app, it will then show the files.

Hey Brogan,

Cheers for that, I've been doing all that and nothing. I'll maybe leave it another half hour and see what happens.

Could you do me a favour though, could you split my crap off from the rest of this thread. I feel really bad now looking at how much I've side tracked this thread

 

[Cezz]

Here's mine.

your missing

$config['cache']['enabled'] = true;

should be directly above

$config['cache']['backend'] = 'File';