[wp-hackers] Re: WordPress + Squid?

[Viper007Bond]

Oh, and here's the site in question if anyone needs the URL:
http://www.finalgear.com/   (fansite for some TV shows, hence the spikes
when they air)

And the application/octet-stream issue isn't Squid related as it was
happening on both the regular port and the Squid port (for testing).

On 9/11/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
>
> Sending that header there ended up making the site serve a
> application/octet-stream if you refreshed too fast.
>
> We decided it wasn't worth the trouble and just enabled memcaching + sql
> caching. We also put a redirect to Coral in the .htaccess (commented out)
> just incase on those hard hitting days. We'll see how it goes soon (our
> traffic is uneven -- we essentially get slashdotted once a week and only in
> certain months).
>
> On 9/11/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
> >
> > My web admin buddy who helps me run the server all my WordPress sites
> > are has set up Squid due to the traffic one of my sites gets (no, not my
> > personal blog sadly). I already run WP-Cache on it, but during peak times,
> > the server bogs down and becomes a tad slow.
> >
> > However, he says WordPress (well, more likely WP-Cache) isn't sending a
> > 304 header when the page hasn't been modified. Is all I need to do to fix
> > this is send a 304 via header() right before this line in
> > wp-cache-phase-1.php ?
> >
> > if ($meta->dynamic) {
> >
> > i.e. this:
> >
> > header( 'HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified' );
> > if ($meta->dynamic) {
> >
> >
> > Anyone knowledgeable care to weigh in?
> >
> > I'm running WP 2.2.3 on this particular install.
> >
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