I have a multi-site WordPress installation running on a DigitalOcean droplet. I added Apache's mod_cache
module to cache content from my website, but I'm running into a really weird issue. On the first page load after I set up the cache, the site loads fine. However, on subsequent page loads I get the directory index instead of index.php getting called:
If I clear the cache, the next page works fine. It seems like mod_cache
is caching the directory index HTML page instead of the rendered output of index.php
.
Here's my site configuration:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName jeremydormitzer.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/jeremydormitzer.com
ErrorLog /var/log/jeremydormitzer.com/error.log
CustomLog /var/log/jeremydormitzer.com/access.log combined
<Directory /var/www/html/jeremydormitzer.com/>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
RewriteEngine on
LoadModule cache_module modules/mod_cache.so
<IfModule mod_cache.c>
LoadModule cache_disk_module modules/mod_cache_disk.so
<IfModule mod_cache_disk.c>
CacheEnable disk /
CacheDisable /wp-admin
</IfModule>
CacheLock on
CacheLockPath "/tmp/mod_cache-lock"
CacheLockMaxAge 5
CacheDisable "http://security.update.server/update-list/"
</IfModule>
Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf
SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/qa.getpterotype.com/fullchain.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/qa.getpterotype.com/privkey.pem
</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>
Here's my cache_disk.conf
:
<IfModule mod_cache_disk.c>
CacheRoot /var/cache/apache2/mod_cache_disk
CacheDirLevels 2
CacheDirLength 1
</IfModule>
And here's my apache2.conf
:
Mutex file:${APACHE_LOCK_DIR} default
PidFile ${APACHE_PID_FILE}
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 5
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
LogLevel warn
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.load
IncludeOptional mods-enabled/*.conf
Include ports.conf
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all denied
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share>
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/html>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
AccessFileName .htaccess
<FilesMatch "^\.ht">
Require all denied
</FilesMatch>
LogFormat "%v:%p %h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" vhost_combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %O" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
IncludeOptional conf-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
ServerName 104.236.87.208
UseCanonicalName On
Does anyone know what's going on with this?
Update
As requested, here's the contents of my site's .htaccess
at the root path:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I figured out the problem. There were two:
Problem 1
mod_cache
was running too early in the server processing pipeline. This meant that it cached content before the PHP scripts were called, causing it to cache the directory index instead. To fix this, I turned offCacheQuickHandler
in my config file:Problem 2
My
.htaccess
file (automatically generated by WordPress) was rewriting all URIs to/index.php
:This was causing every page to get cached as
index.php
, meaning that whenever you visited a page on my website Apache served up whatever the last page visited was.Changing it to rewrite URIs to
index.php/<the path>
fixed this problem:Thanks to this ServerFault answer for pointing me in the right direction.