after installing and setting up boost everything is fine/faster all good. then after what seems like the max cache life expires [#665626]

What happens after a successful install of Boost running for a time, suddenly the anonymous users lose formating on the front page. suddenly loses all theme based formating untill I go into boost and clear the current boost cache. Then the anonymous user can refresh and see the themed layout of the page once again. It seems to last just until maxcache life is reached I think. Please help. Otherwise all seems fine although didn't check to see if it's caching something it shouldn't yet. I tended to go for all recommended settings. I have a Linux server running the very latest apache. Please help urgently.

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Comment #1

mikeytown2 CreditAttribution: mikeytown2 commented 22 December 2009 at 17:39

Are you caching css? if not you need to.

Comment #2

Tigerboy CreditAttribution: Tigerboy commented 23 December 2009 at 08:14

yes I was caching both... I worked on boost settings very carefully and I'm not sure what was causing the exact problem with the *front* page being stripped of formatting for anonymous users but it no longer is a problem after making changes. I will try to figure it out when I get a bit more time. But it wasn't the css caching I always had that set. merry christmas, happy holidays

Comment #3

Tigerboy CreditAttribution: Tigerboy commented 23 December 2009 at 08:15

Ok I figured it out. Been rather busy lately with tonnes of work... This is what happens, unrelated to boost or performance settings per se, I thought it was settings or bug related, however,...

I use the "admin menu" module and it has an entry on the superuser variant left most menu called "flush all cashes". This links to "http://sitename.com/admin_menu/flush-cache?destination=node and when I click this suddenly only the *front* page loses all formatting... all other pages keep formatting just fine. Until I go to the Boost--clear all boost cashed data and hit that button. Once clicked the *front*page formatting returns. Hope that makes sense or helps you.

Comment #4

mikeytown2 CreditAttribution: mikeytown2 commented 24 December 2009 at 05:34

well boost is supposed to cache the css for your front page in order to avoid this issue. Drupal has a tendency to drop the optimized css files but not the cached pages. To get around this issue entirely boost caches the css. So it sounds like boost is not picking up your front page css file. Can I look at your website?

Comment #5

Tigerboy CreditAttribution: Tigerboy commented 24 December 2009 at 07:35

css on both performance page and boost settings page? Sorry I'm still on my internal web server doing testing until I get this all sorted out. Thanks.

Comment #6

mikeytown2 CreditAttribution: mikeytown2 commented 24 December 2009 at 08:11

css on performance page
"Optimize CSS files: "
This aggregates all css files into 1 big css file. Drupal has a tendency to nuke this 1 big file; its stored in sites/default/files/css.

Boost cacheability settings
"Cache .css"
This will place all css files boost finds inside the actual html document into the perm dir. The idea being these files will be in a more permanent storage area in comparison to the sites/default/files/css folder. This along with "Cache .js" should be enabled if its not already.

Save the html of your front page & one other one and upload it so I can take a peak at how it looks.

Question: what theme are you using?
Article that mentions this issue: http://www.mysqlperformancetuning.com/serve-static-drupal-content-faster...