{"id":496,"date":"2007-11-08T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T23:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/getting-wordpress-super-cache-to-run-on-a-windows-iis-or-apache-server\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T21:54:01","slug":"getting-wordpress-super-cache-to-run-on-a-windows-iis-or-apache-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/getting-wordpress-super-cache-to-run-on-a-windows-iis-or-apache-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting WordPress Super Cache to Run on a Windows (IIS or Apache) Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re a regular reader, you probably know by now that we just love<\/em> performance and can’t get enough of server performance-improving software\/code… Especially when it comes to WordPress.<\/p>\n

Donncha has recently released<\/a> a great plugin for WordPress, called "WordPress Super Cache." It builds on the original WP-Cache plugin by Ricardo Granada – except that it fixes all the bugs in the original implementation and has been written in enough pure PHP that it’ll also run on Windows servers – both IIS and Apache for that matter! <cue applause><\/p>\n

At the moment (as of version 0.3.1) it needs a bit of work to make it run, but not much. So here goes – 10 easy steps to get cached content on your IIS or Apache server under Windows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download Donncha’s plugin here<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Extract it so you have a \/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/<\/code> directory with all the files (like wp-cache.php) in there. <\/li>\n
  3. Copy
    \/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/wp-cache-phase1.php<\/code> to
    \/wp-content\/advanced-cache.php<\/code> <\/li>\n
  4. Open up \/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-super-cache\/wp-cache.php<\/code> and locate this: 
    function wp_cache_check_link() {<br \/>\n    global $wp_cache_link, $wp_cache_file;<\/pre> <\/li>\n
  5. Replace that with 
    function wp_cache_check_link() {<br \/>\n\tglobal $wp_cache_link, $wp_cache_file;<\/p>\n<p>\tif ( file_exists($wp_cache_link) )<br \/>\n\t    return true;<br \/>\n\telse {<br \/>\n\t    echo &#8220;<code>advanced-cache.php<\/code> does not exist<br \/>&#8220;;<br \/>\n\t    echo &#8220;Create it by copying <code>$wp_cache_file<\/code> to <code>$wp_cache_link<\/code> on your server<br \/>&#8220;;<br \/>\n\t    return false;<br \/>\n\t}<\/pre> <\/li>\n
  6. Log into your dashboard and enable WP Super Cache in the Plugins page.<\/li>\n
  7. Go to the WP Super Cache options page and enable caching.<\/li>\n
  8. Open \/wp-content\/wp-cache-config.php<\/code> and look for \"WPCACHEHOME\"<\/code> and correct     
    a) Add an opening quotation mark before "C:\\"      
    b) Replace all "\\" with "\\\\" or "\/"<\/li>\n
  9. Create your rewrite rules like it says in readme.txt. If your using Apache on Windows, use mod_rewrite. If you’re using IIS, you’ll need to use the 3rd party (non-free, but quite good) ISAPI_Rewrite 3.0<\/a> <\/li>\n
  10. If you have mod_gzip, mod_deflate, or IIS dynamic content caching enabled, make sure you don’t<\/strong> enable Super Cache gzip because it’s already being done on the server level (which is better, anyway! :)) <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Don’t forget to install either our XCache or eAccelerator plugins<\/a> to speed up the stuff that WordPress Super Cache doesn’t<\/em> cache, such as logged-in users’ visits and comment processing, etc. as well as visits by people who have commented (see below).<\/p>\n
    Known Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n