Cache Forum Templates

New Member Joined: Jun 29, 2004 Posts: 11 Location: USA

Hello Everyone!!

I recently helped someone with a phpbb forum update,
and noticed they include an option to cache the template
system (by 1 of 2 ways -> file or db).

Has anyone tried this?

What I did was take the phpbb 2.0.17 template_file_cache.php
(for file caching), add:

Code:

if (!defined('IN_PHPBB')) {


        die();


}

to the top of it. Rename it to template.php and put it in
my includes folder (replaced my original). Then the instructions said to make a cache folder in my forums directory (named cache & chmod 777). The download included a .htaccess & blank index.html file
to place in this cache directory also. Instead though, I used cpanel to
password protect this directory instead (which made it's own .htaccess).

Now when I click on a forum link or login Nuke's admin, and go
to forums, it caches my .tpl files, and they are for the correct theme
as well (there are .tpl files in the cache folder).

I'd really like to move the cache folder outside the public_html.

Is this justified? I really can't tell if it made or makes
an increase. Is this old news and everyone has been using it?

Thanks -
DoVe

Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:38 pm

You need to leave the cache inside public_html as that is what is feeding to users. If it were outside the public_html, nobody would be able to see anything and it wouldn't work.

When you are on a high-speed connection, it is extremely hard to tell if there are performance increases; however, dialup users could tell you for sure. Smile

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:32 pm

ok thanks