By walterbyrd on

Drupal 4.7.5, Firefox 1.5

I edited the content on the front page. But it won't take. I have tried clearing all content in firefox, but it didn't help.

If I go back, and do an edit->preview, the content is correct. Or if I log in as an admin, and click "read more" the content is correct. But for regular viewers, the content does not update.

It's the "read more" part that doesn't update. The other part seems to update.

Could this have anything to do with me having the cache on?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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carnevaledesign’s picture

carnevaledesign commented

If you have page caching on, the changes will not be visible to anyone, including yourself, until the cache is reset.

walterbyrd’s picture

walterbyrd commented

Can I manually re-set the cache?

vm’s picture

vm commented

yes in the database. truncuate the cache table.

using phpmyadmin:

in the left pane choose cache table by clicking on it
after doing so you will see an tab at the top of the right pane named "empty"
after clicking empty you will be returned a confirmation that you want to truncuate the table.

walterbyrd’s picture

walterbyrd commented

Thank you for answering, but that is far too great a PITA.

Seems to me that drupal's cache is not working the way a cache should. A cache is not supposed to forbid changes, a cache is just supposed to hold on to recent data in case somebody requests that data again.

Oh well, I'll just write it off as a worthless "feature."

vm’s picture

vm commented

Don't know that the changes were forbid. They just werent showing.
can you please confirm or deny that flushing the cache from the database did indeed fix the problem you were having ?

lorns’s picture

lorns commented

I've got the same issue - where I'm trying to modify a module yet the changes aren't taking for whatever reason.
I've disabled cache, and continually clear my browser cache, and have truncated the cache table via phpMyAdmin.
Yet I'm still getting old content.

Any ideas?

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sapark commented

I truncated the cache_page table and it worked.
I had the same problem where I edited content from MySQL Administrator and the changes showed for admin and not for regular users.