Hi,
Caching seems to be working very well in most regards except for the front page on one of my sites, which constantly reads "Page not found" for anonymous users. If I turn caching off, or disable it in the .htaccess the site works as expected. Do anyone know what this problem relates to?

I'm running Apache2 and PHP 5.2.0 as fcgi on Dreamhost. Testing locally also produces the same problem. For some reason Boost is working perfectly fine on the same host with the same setup on a different web site. Advice is most appreciated.

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Title: Front page "Page not found" » 404 for front page
Assigned: Unassigned » Arto
Status: Active » Fixed

I believe a recent patch by Barry Jaspan solves this issue. I've committed the fix to CVS today - once the 5.x-1.x-dev snapshot tarball has been regenerated (~12 hours or so), grab that to get the fix.

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Title: 404 for front page » 404 Page Not Found on front page
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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)
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fellow commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I have the same problem with last version.

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Arto commented
Title: 404 Page Not Found on front page » 404 Not Found response on front page
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

If anyone is still experiencing this problem with 5.x-1.x-dev, please reopen this issue.

In the 6.x branch, additional steps have been taken in changeset [148738] to make sure that 404 Not Found responses are never, ever cached. This was related to issue #311988: Prevent caching 404 Not Found responses and could conceivably be backported to 5.x if somebody needed it.

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Component: Code » Caching logic