[Resolved] vBulletin 4 Home Page Sometimes Malformed

[findingpeace]

I'm currently working on the 15 day trial with Litespeed. I have cache configured to ramdisk and it's working great! Since migrating from Apache, my sever load dropped from an average of 3.0 to 0.4 - we have a lot of guest visitors, so caching them has made our database very happy Also, we used to get Out Of Memory errors, and now the memory usage is at 300MB (out of 5GB)! I don't what magic you people did, but it's amazing and now I need to downgrade my VPS plan.

My only problem is that sometimes the forum.php page does not render when I load as a guest. New incognito window in Chrome and going to the site, it'll occasionally look like this:

Then I refresh and it looks completely fine. But then if I close out of the incognito window, open a new incognito window, and load the site, it's broken again.

I did a View Page Source for both the correct / incorrect page, and a diff shows the source code to be identical.

It's not all the time, but I'd say at least half the time it does this, so obviously I need to fix whatever the problem is before re-enabling LS Cache.

Note: This also happens frequently if I open the homepage, then click to open a forum/thread, and then click homepage again. The homepage will start out fine, but after going to a forum/thread and back to the homepage, it suddenly looks like above.

Any ideas? Here is my htaccess:

php_flag display_errors off

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !bbimloggedin=yes
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !bbimloggedin=
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !bbimloggedin=
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^HEAD|GET$
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !s=[a-fA-F0-9]{32}
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !product=vbnexus
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(login|register|usercp|private|profile|cron|image)\.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/admincp
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/modcp
RewriteRule (.*\.php)?$ - [E=Cache-Control:max-age=120]

If I can get this fixed, I'm very excited to purchase the 2-CPU License this week!

Thanks

 

[findingpeace]

If you leave me alone in a corner for long enough, I'll usually figure out what I screwed up The problem was running force https rules AFTER the cache logic in .htaccess - moved it up above, and everything works fine now.

Thanks!

 

[NiteWave]

Thanks for the sharing! so above rewrite rules is the final working rules. Yes, redirect rules should put before cache rules.

p.s. for

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} http://www.mysite.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

see if following one works:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mysite.com$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

[findingpeace]

Hi @NiteWave thanks! I'll try that change out tomorrow and report back to confirm it works okay