You may have seen a nasty Error 500 for the past two or three hours here, and this is the second time I've had this kind of trouble. Site up, MySQL up, stuff looking OK, except that everything related to WordPress, including the admin area, dies returning an error. It turned out that the culprit was… WordPress' Cache.
Apparently, there can be sometimes a stale lock file in wp-content/cache/ that prevents everything from running normally. In my case, I'm using WP's internal cache but not the WP-Cache plugin, but it seems this problem affects also WP-Cache users. The stale lock is actually preventing things from running so well that every process just timeouts and dies.
Today's lesson : when your WordPress blog starts to behave weirdly and not responding, simply delete wp-content/cache/.
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How can I use the WP internal cache?? I don't have that option / directory.
Ron » the internal cache is part of every WP installation, hence the name "internal" :) Its directory is wp-content/cache. In order to make use of it, and to reduce the number of queries on your site, you may need to add the following to your wp-config.php :
The wp-content/cache/ doesn't exist. WordPress doesn't have a cache of its own. It's only if you install the WP-Cache plugin or if the other plugins have their own caches.
From http://codex.wordpress.org/I_Make_Changes_and_Nothing_Happens
Thanks Ozh. Shall use the same on my website. Thanks a ton.
Thanks OZh. I'm give it a try on my blog. Hopefully, my website won't be slow anymore or else i guess i have to find a vps server. Cheers, Hyde.
Thanks for sharing what is the importance of clear cache but @error 500-it is amazing to know that 500 error is also is because of cache.
Thank you man, this shit I deleted the folder that was installed by plugins wp-cache, and deleted my site back to normal faster and unstable after deleting the cache folder.
Now are 5:06 am, I was since midnight trying to solve and you helped me, thanks
Hello,
Please help me out. I installed the newer version of WP and now my dashboard is not rendering any css styles. It shows a very long list of items. I am so lost, please let me know how can I fix it. thank you so much!
so if i understand well, to clear the cache of my wp-content by the ftp i simply delete de diffrent "folder" or "file" in the folder that are in wp-content/cache?
so i delete "config", "minify", "page_enhanced", "tmp" and "index.html??? thank you.