Your main configuration file at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf has some pitfalls and it shouldn’t be that complex. Let me share a simpler version for you to start with… server { server_name www.yourdomain.com; # please replace the root path # ex: /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html root /path/to/wordpress/installation; index index.php; # please update the path to W3 Total Cache’s configuration # ex: … Read more
I find that W3 Total Cache works well for me in doing minifying and gzipping. (I’m not sure about the others.) More generally, if there’s a plugin that does something, I use the plugin. It’s very rare to see a do-it-all theme do something better than a specialized, single-function plugin, particularly when that plugin is … Read more
Do you have the settings set to an option your hosting provider doesn’t allow? Or maybe you don’t have the .htaccess configured correctly to allow the plugin to work as required. Did you try the default or “automatic” set-up to see if the error is generated?
Okay, the answer is pretty obvious. Let me explain by example: W3 Total Cache makes sure that all the primary static contents on a web page (i.e. ones directly referenced in the source of the web page) are loaded via the CDN URL. So, lets say, W3TC serves the blog’s stylesheet from cdn.example.com/wp-content/themes/MY-THEME/style.css and the … Read more
Thanks to @Pothi Kalimuthu I checked with my hosting company to see if mod_deflate was enabled, and it wasnt. This was the problem. I mistakingly believed that it was by incorrectly reading the results of phpinfo.
The CDN doesn’t allow or disallow anything – it doesn’t care what you keep on your server. W3 Total Cache does not remove local images after copying them to the CDN – and nor should it. What would happen if your CDN disappeared, or corrupted, or increased it’s prices? You’d lose all of your image … Read more
Google PageSpeed Enable Compression isn’t working?
W3 Total Cache: use cache for request with ignorable query string [closed]
Running code before object-cache.php runs
You have to uncheck Prevent caching of objects after settings change in the Browser caching settings of the W3 Total Cache plugin. This will remove the query string from media (image, video, etc.) URLs. But in this case, media files will remain cached by the visitor’s browser until the browser cache will be emptied or … Read more