[Mediawiki-l] Caching Issues

DanTMan dan_the_man at telus.net
Thu May 1 21:12:48 UTC 2008


The first thing to do would be to disable caching for users. You can't 
do a proper page cache when someone is logged in.
And for the IP's set $wgShowIPinHeader to false to remove the IP from 
the header.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
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-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

Russ Lavoy wrote:
> WOW!
>
> Where did that tag come from...
>
> My name is Russ not Matt....
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Russ
>
> --- Russ Lavoy <ussray_00 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have a little dilemma here.  Hopefully someone can
>> lend me a hand.
>>
>> I have a cluster of front end mediawiki servers with
>> a
>> backend NFS and a MySQL server.  In front of those I
>> have a caching device.  
>>
>> My problem is this, the caching device caches the IP
>> and username of people that are anonymous or logged
>> in.  If someone logs in as "joe" and browses around
>> and another user name "jack" browses to the same
>> page,
>> "jack" will notice his name changed to "joe".
>>
>> I am not sure how this is happening...  But when I
>> turn off caching on the device the issue goes away
>> and
>> never comes back.
>>
>> Is there some special character or string I need to
>> exclude from the cache?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>      
>>
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