How to Enable Super Cache WordPress plugin

Few days back We talked about WP-Super cache plugin. Wp-Super cache is must have plugin for any wordpress blog on Shared hosting. WP-Super cache plugin is very useful to face the Digg effect.

Digg effect is when any of your blog post hits the Front page of Digg, you will get huge traffic spike. A Normal Shared hosting is not capable of facing such huge traffic, to make them capable of face such situation, you need to install and configure wp”Super cache wordpress plugin. To know more about Digg, you may refer to my previous post on :

Digg : The beginners guide

How to configure Wp “Super cache wordpress plugin?

Just installing and activating Super cache plugin, doesn’t mean that it is enough to take care of huge traffic. When you access super cache under settings you will see something like this >

So to enable the Wp “Super cache plugin

You need to add this line to your .htaccess file

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>
# END WPSuperCache

You also need to check, /home/origina5/public_html/yourdomain.com/wp-content/cache/.htaccess

has the following entry, if not manually edit it :

# BEGIN supercache
<IfModule mod_mime.c>
  AddEncoding gzip .gz
  AddType text/html .gz
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
  SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .gz$ no-gzip
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
  Header set Cache-Control 'max-age=300, must-revalidate'
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
  ExpiresActive On
  ExpiresByType text/html A300
</IfModule>
# END supercache

Once you have added the entry in your .htaccess file click on update mod_rewrite rules under settings>Wp super cache

So with two simple steps, you will be making your wordpress blog to face the Digg or stumble effect.

If you have any question, do let me know.

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