I've installed this and it appears to be working... I've been watching the /cache/normal/[my site] folder and I see that HTML pages are being created -- as I visit those pages. But, if I were to just leave things alone, would those cached pages be created over time by the system? Or does this plugin require that someone visit each page in order to trigger the caching? I'm hoping that it's the former case... otherwise people will get some fast pages, some slow.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'd appreciate knowing more about how this works.

Thanks!

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bgm’s picture

bgm commented
Status: Active » Fixed

The pages get created when someone visits the pages. They expire when the cron runs (or if you have the expire module and using the latest dev).

In Boost 6.x-1.x there was a crawler functionality that could be turned on an ran through the site in order to re-create the cache. We don't have it in 7.x-1.x yet. I'm not the biggest fan of the crawler, I find it a bit too much aggressive, but there might be other options. The main issue for the crawler is in #1074080: Cron crawler in 7.x?.

relish27’s picture

relish27 commented

Thanks for the quick response on this. The crawler idea is very appealing. I will check out the issue you mention and the possible alternatives.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.