How to Clear the Cache in Elgg 1.8

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 February 2012 09:17 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Wednesday, 15 February 2012 12:00

Cache has been a great problem when you are making modifications to your Elgg site. Every time you changed something in your site you were not going to see the changes if you had simple cache enabled. Now, you can clear cache without disabling simple cache. In this article, I will give you a quick step by step guide on how to clear the cache in Elgg 1.8.

1. Login on your Elgg site as an Admin

2. Once logged in, on the top bar menu, click on the Administration link:

Utilizing the Dolphin 7 Cache System

Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 October 2011 01:23 Written by Mscott Monday, 10 October 2011 12:00

In today’s blog, I am going to show you how to use the cache system that is built into your Dolphin 7 based website.  If you are an Arvixe client who has a VPS or dedicated server you have the ability to install EAccelerator, XCache, APC or Memcache. These are all PHP opcode cachers which compile the PHP code and cache it in memory. This reduces the average load time and speeds up any PHP based website. To use any of these cache engines you must have PHP running as FastCGI, Fcgid, CGI, or DSO.  For the purpose of this tutorial I am going to use the file cache system which does not require any of these to be installed. It is available to anyone, including shared hosting clients and clients who chose to run PHP as suPHP.

What is “Cache” memory?

Last Updated on Sunday, 31 July 2011 07:58 Written by Richi González Sunday, 31 July 2011 06:25

Hello,

Have you ever gone into computers’ system specifications and seen that there is a memory called Cache? Well, for me it was quite different.. I was building a computer to a friend of mine, and I was asking him which processor he wanted to have installed, so when I showed him the options he asked me what the Cache memory was, so I had to explain him. Throughout the web and out of the web, there are a lot  of people wondering what does the Cache memory stands for, so here is an article explaining you, web users, what is it. Enjoy.

How to Run upgrade.php in Elgg

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 July 2011 08:00 Written by Rodolfo Hernandez Saturday, 23 July 2011 12:00

Several Elgg users wonder why they cannot see changes they do to their Elgg sites. I tell them to run the upgrade.php, but they do not know how to that. This article will give you a step by a step guide on how to run upgrade.php in Elgg.

What is Propagation?

Last Updated on Tuesday, 25 January 2011 05:55 Written by Arian Jahansouz Sunday, 22 August 2010 06:44

This article will give you a clear understanding of what propagation is. Any time DNS changes are made, you must wait for propagation to complete before you seeing any changes. Propagation is the time it takes