How to set right cache system?

[croc]

Hello All,

 

I have one issue with prestashop 1.6.0.9. cache.

 

I discovered that almost 80% of my products are not working (page is not loading just blank page) and that number was still higher and higher. (I have thousends of products)

 

Then I deleted contents of folders:

cache/smarty/cache

and

cache/smarty/compile

 

I checked that most importanat folder to clear is cache/smarty/cache/blocktopmenu/

 

It helped and all worked right, but after time, all content of these folders was back and products did not work again.

 

 

My question:

How to set cache system right, to turn off automatical generating of cache files in those folders above?

And is it ok to turn it off - or what for are these files/folder important?

 

 

Thanks in advance

Edited June 22, 2015 by croc (see edit history)

[Dh42]

Is your server generating any error messages to the log files?

[croc]

Is your server generating any error messages to the log files?

Hi Dh42, thanks for reply,

I checked, but I found no errors about cache or any which would be important for this issue.

 

I just discovered that after manual clearing of folders cache/smarty/cache and cache/smarty/compile their content was directly generated again in a while, so the problem with products pages nonloading was cyclic.

 

In BO in preferences/performance/smarty  i changed cache button to NO, and it seems that if helped coz links are working good.

 

Was this step OK?

How about compile settings in BO, which should i choose?

 

 

Thanks

[Bill Dalton]

Just a guess but ...

 

Smarty creates sub directory's recursively by default, you may not have set write permissions to enable that. For example permissions/chmod to /cache/ directory recursively to 777.

 

Alternatively you can turn off sub directory creation in config/smarty.config.inc.php

 

Change:

 

global $smarty;

$smarty = new Smarty();

$smarty->setCompileDir(_PS_CACHE_DIR_.'smarty/compile');

$smarty->setCacheDir(_PS_CACHE_DIR_.'smarty/cache');

if (!Tools::getSafeModeStatus())

$smarty->use_sub_dirs = true;

 

The last word true to false.

Edited June 24, 2015 by Bill Dalton (see edit history)

[croc]

Hi,

and if by this way, is there any disadvantage?

I mean when I will turn off auto compile and cache.

 

Thanks

[Bill Dalton]

Do not turn off auto compile and cache. All I'm talking about is write permissions in sub directory's.

[croc]

Do not turn off auto compile and cache. All I'm talking about is write permissions in sub directory's.

 

It means that cache button in BO preferences/performance/smarty should be set as YES?

 

and just change permisions to 777 + change true to false ? Am I right?

 

Thanks in advance

[Bill Dalton]

Yes, keep that on.

 

I made two suggestions in my post #4. Both require working with the files/directory, not BO.

[croc]

Yes, keep that on.

 

I made two suggestions in my post #4. Both require working with the files/directory, not BO.

 

 

Hi Bill,

 

so when i will it change to false, what will I reach?

Will it stop to generate subdirectories in cahe and compile?

 

 

I need any tip how to stop to generate them cause my server is still falling down after it reach files quota limit.

 

In BO i turned cache button to NO, and cache folder is still empty (what for are those all folders and files?, are they important? ) now, just compile folder still generates folder and files....

 

Thanks

[Bill Dalton]

The problem you are having could be caused by any number of things. I just gave you a suggestion to try with the hope it might help. Good luck to you.