[Phpwebsite-developers] Strangeness with caching

[Verdon V. <ve...@gm...>]

Hi,

Just a heads-up, this struck me as curious once I sorted it out...

I am developing two phpws 1.x sites concurrently on different  
subdomains of my server. One of them is at devsite1.mydomain.com and  
the other is at devsite2.mydomain.com Both are using a custom theme  
but of the same name.

I was finding that when I made a change to the theme.tpl file in one  
site, the other site also seemed to get the changes applied when  
viewed in a browser, even though the .tpl files in each site were  
quite different.

This confused the heck out of me and after fiddling with any possible  
local cache, my php accelorator caches, and anything else I could  
think of, I found the following switch in /config/core/config.php and  
disabled it.

define('ALLOW_CACHE_LITE', TRUE);
define('ALLOW_SIGMA_CACHE', FALSE);   // << this was the problem
define('CACHE_LIFETIME', 3600);
define('CACHE_DIRECTORY', '/tmp/');

Once I identified it, the fix was easy enough. I suppose I should  
just change the cache directory, but I thought it curious that it  
would confuse the two subdomain's cached files. I wonder what it's  
doing to the data cache, CACHE_LITE?

rgds,
verdon