I'm keen to deploy Boost and my video site. It seems perfect for my site,
because most of my traffic is from non-authenticated users.
I followed the instructions in install.txt - including the installation of
.htaccess, but I'm not seeing any pages written to the cache directory, nor
are any of my pages showing a comment at the bottom telling me the pages
are cached.

I understand that Boost requires a directory called "cache." The path to
this directory is set in Site configuration > Performance. The default is
"cache" with no slashes, so I assume I needed to create this directory at the same level as the
.htaccess file in the httpdocs directory: httpdocs / cache

But how does this work in a multi-site environment?
If the module is installed at httpdocs / sites / sitename / modules, does
boost know to store and retrieve the cached files from httpdocs / cache ?

I've installed the module, enabled it and logged out, but I don't see any
files appearing in httpdocs / cache, nor are any of my files showing comments about caching at the end of their source code.

I found this notation in .htacess, but I'm not quite sure that I need to do anything with it:

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory and
# the rewrite rules are not working properly.
#RewriteBase /drupal

Here are the instructions from Site configuration > Performance
A file system path where the cache files will be stored. This directory
has to exist and be writable by Drupal. The default setting is to store the
files in a directory named 'cache' under the Drupal installation directory.
If you change this, you must also change the URL rewrite rules in your web
server configuration (.htaccess for Apache, lighttpd.conf for Lighttpd), or
caching will not work.

Is httpdocs the Drupal installation directory?

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2c’s picture

2c commented

"I'm keen to deploy Boost on my video site"

From the Boost readme:

* Only content of the type `text/html' will get cached at present. RSS feeds
and URL paths that have some other content type (e.g. set by a third-party
module) will be silently ignored by Boost.

I had a similar problem with the CCK youtube field. It looks like I'm out of luck.

If you want to test whether Boost is working or not logout, browse as anonymous, and visit a page that has simple content (e.g. no videos).

mikeytown2’s picture

mikeytown2 commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing all 5.x issues; will only reevaluate if someone steps up #454652: Looking for a co-maintainer - 5.x

Reason is 6.x has 10x as many users as 5.x; also last 5.x dev was over a year ago. The 5.x issue queue needs to go.