My friend made changes to his website. When he looks at home or at his job, he sees the changes. Looks like everywhere else the changes are not visible.
Can you please help us?
Use CTRL-F5 to refresh the page with fresh data, not cached data.
I set all of my browsers to get fresh data automatically, and to clear the cache when the browser exits.
HTH,
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Must be another problem.
We used https://www.geoscreenshot.com and everywhere they see the old version of the page.
The only other thing that I can think of (and yes, I’ve done this a few times) is that the new code was pushed to staging, but not production. I’ve had brain-fart days where I’ve pushed to staging, and couldn’t understand why my changes weren’t appearing as I was browsing to production.
If the changes were pushed to production, but only appear at work and at home, then you must be in the Twilight Zone. 
V/r,
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I surely browse to production. Yes??? So does geoscreenshot.
How can my friend browse to staging??? I have a screenshot of my friends pc. He’s in Chrome and browses to the exact address that I use.
Does he have an entry in his host file for that URL?
I can check.
What kind of an entry makes it possible to refer to the staging-version of the website?
Any entry that points a URL to a different URL or to a specific IP address…
Ok I’ll check
Just curious: Is there a Mac equivalent to a hosts file??? I’m not a Mac user, but just wondered about that when I read your answer.
V/r,
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Yup. It’s the…hosts file :D.
Same file, same format, same purpose just in a different location (/private/etc/hosts on the mac instead of windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts in Windows)
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All I can think of is: do you use any kind of CDN?
They are not something I have worked with. Could it show different cached versions at different locations?
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Could it show different cached versions at different locations?
That was my thought as well. If he is using a CDN, the update will take some time to populate across the different nodes.
Here is a quote about typical CDN behavior (from Amazon Cloudfront – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/HowToUpdateDistribution.html)
When you save changes to your distribution configuration, CloudFront starts to propagate the changes to all edge locations. Until your configuration is updated in an edge location, CloudFront continues to serve your content from that location based on the previous configuration. After your configuration is updated in an edge location, CloudFront immediately starts to serve your content from that location based on the new configuration.
This would make the most sense, considering that the state of the page is depending on geographic location.
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Remains a mystery.
He added a new section and that section is everywhere visible.
But all the dates are “wrong”. He sees 15-09-2018. The rest of the world (checked with https://www.geoscreenshot.com) sees 14-09-2018.
And 15-09 is correct.
The site is made in wix.com.
This.
Wix uses a CDN (Content Delivery Network) server, which is an interconnected system of cache servers in different geographical locations. Web content is delivered from the closest cache server. This system allows your site to load faster.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/cdn-server-and-loading-time
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