{"id":6898,"date":"2009-04-02T23:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=6898"},"modified":"2020-05-24T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T04:45:37","slug":"strange-wp-supercache-wordpress-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/strange-wp-supercache-wordpress-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange WP-Supercache WordPress Folders"},"content":{"rendered":"

I use WP-Supercache<\/a>, an amazing WordPress plugin which caches html pages<\/strong> of our php pages and reduces the server load drastically. But due to recent internal server errors<\/strong>, I looked inside my WordPress supercache folders and found some strange folders.<\/p>\n

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As you see there were 3 folders, though quickonlinetips.com folder was expected, quickonlinetips.com.<\/strong> (with a period at the end) and quickonlinetips.com.disabled<\/strong> (with a .disabled at the end) were not expected. As I browsed deeper into these folders, they had the complete directory structure of our site and has hundreds of cached html pages, which were now not being served anymore.<\/p>\n

As I started to manually delete <\/strong>these 2 folders and all its subfolders, even after hours, my trusted FTP client Filezilla<\/a> kept on working and we were getting nowhere. Eventually I realized supercache had created hundreds of similar empty subfolders<\/strong> to an infinite depth which continued as far as I could browse. And whenever I tried to delete them, the server would finally timeout and disconnect.<\/p>\n

After several sessions I was still unable to delete all folders. Then I logged into Shell using my trusted Putty<\/a>, a free telnet and SSH Client<\/strong> for Windows and Unix platforms. Using Putty I was able to quickly navigate to the supercache folder and delete these directories and those unending subfolders using powerful Linux commands – in a few minutes! Amazing!
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See the full image<\/a> to get an idea of how deep these folders extended.
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Note that Supercache might not have been the cause of Internal server errors<\/strong>, but these strange folders were definitely created by error. But inspite of these bugs, Supercache is a highly recommended wordpress plugin <\/strong>that every wordpress blogger should have. Have you taken a peek into your Supercache folder lately? – you might find some interesting folders out there.<\/p>\n

You might also want to check our previous experiences with WP Super-Cache not deleting expired pages<\/a> and how we fixed SuperCache errors of no cached pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I use WP-Supercache, an amazing WordPress plugin which caches html pages of our php pages and reduces the server load…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-6898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}