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I’ve upgraded my old WP-Cache plugin to this one that I found on Digg.com today.

From the Digg.com Post:

Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the other side? Finally, Donncha (one of the main WordPress developers) has solved the problem once and for all with a plugin that blows WP-Cache away.

I had a minor issue but was able to find the answer on the WordPress plugins wp-super-cache faq page. If you are upgrading from the old plugin, you need to correctly set up you cache files in the wp-content directory. I had old files based on the original WP-Cache and needed to remove those and add the new ones.

# from within the wp-content directory
>rm wp-cache-config.php
>cp plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache-config-sample.php wp-cache-config.php
>ln -s plugins/wp-super-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php advanced-cache.php


After that, I was able to enable and use the plugin successfully.

In addition to enabling the plugin, I thought I’d try out the super cache functionality. To do this, you have to add a few more rewrite rules to your .htaccess file. I didn’t notice this in the documentation, but you have to add these before your other rewrite rules.

# new .htaccess file after enabling super cache
RewriteEngine On
# if these rules come after, you'll not get the super cache functionality
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*comment_author_.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpressuser.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wp-postpass_.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html.gz [L]

# my original rules
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


Edit: I posted an update that deals with getting the super cache compression to work.

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