Joomla Xcache Question

CMS & WordPress
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Symptoms:

Firsrt, please note that I have the cache plug-in disabled, and caching turned off in the global config.

When I make changes to categories and articles, these changes do in fact take (for example, changing the description of a cat).

BUT, I am returned to a server error page:

The website encountered an error while retrieving http://mysite.net/administrator/index.php?option=com_categories&extension=com_content&layout=edit&id=19. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.

I suspect the common denominator is changes that require writing to the configuration.php file.

Now, when I check the Apache error logs, I find this:

PHP Fatal error: xcache_list() [<a href=‘function.xcache-list’>function.xcache-list</a>]: xcache.admin.user and xcache.admin.pass is required in /home/mysite/public_html/libraries/joomla/cache/storage/xcache.php on line 141, referer: http://mysite.net/administrator/index.php?option=com_categories&view=category&layout=edit&id=19&extension=com_content

Work-Around:

I edit the configuration.php file:

public $cache_handler = ‘file’;

“file” is not an option in the global config dialog, nor the plug-in configuration. And, any operation that writes to the configuration.php file over-writes this back to “xcache” and the problem then reoccurs.

This is damn annoying.

Thanks!

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This post looks old, but if someone has this problem the solution is easy:

-Access to the server as root and edit the php.ini file (for centos: /usr/local/lib/php.ini)
-Search the XCache settings and change the values to:

xcache.admin.user = “”
xcache.admin.pass = “”
xcache.admin.enable_auth = Off

Restart apache.

That’s all. Regards