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- | ====== Crawler ====== | + | ====== LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress: Crawler ====== |
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+ | The crawler travels through your site, refreshing pages that have expired in the cache. This makes it less likely that your visitors will encounter uncached pages. | ||
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+ | ===== Before you Begin ===== | ||
+ | The crawler must be enabled at the server level, or it will not work. Please contact your hosting provider, or see [[litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:configuration:enabling_the_crawler|our instructions]]. | ||
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+ | Before using any of the functions in this area, please be sure that you have [[litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:configuration:crawler|configured the crawler]] to your liking. | ||
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+ | ===== Getting Ready to Run ===== | ||
+ | {{:litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:lscwp-crawler-annotated.png?direct&800|}} | ||
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+ | - If you don't already have a sitemap file, you can generate one here by pressing the **Generate Crawler File** button. (If you already have an XML sitemap, you can enter the URL on the Crawler settings tab.) | ||
+ | - Set **Activate** to ''Enable'' to turn on the crawler. | ||
+ | - If you want to watch the crawler's progress, press the **Show Crawler Status** button. | ||
+ | - You can wait for the crawler to begin on its own according to its configuration settings, or you can press the **Manually Run** button and start it immediately. If the crawler is already running, this button will be ignored. | ||
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+ | ===== Running the Crawler ===== | ||
+ | {{:litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:lscwp-crawler-watch.png?direct&800|}} | ||
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+ | If you've opted to watch the crawler status, your screen will look something like this. The messages in the status window will vary from these, as this screenshot was grabbed from a small installation with few pages to crawl. | ||
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+ | {{:litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:troubleshooting:lscwp-crawler2.jpg|}} | ||
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+ | This is an explanation: | ||
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+ | ''Size: 181'': This means the sitemap files has 181 URLs, one URL per line. | ||
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+ | ''Crawler: #1'': This means you are watching action of Crawler number 1 , there could be multiple crawlers working depends on your setting. | ||
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+ | ''Position: 1'': This means this crawler is currently fetching the 1st URL from sitemap file. | ||
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+ | ''Threads: 2'': This means this is thread number 2, there could be multiple threads fetching, it is smart and will adjust based on your load [[litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:configuration:crawler|settings]]. | ||
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+ | ''Status: Stopped due to reset meta position'': This means while it's crawling, site has purged or sitemap changed, so it will restart from top. | ||
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+ | If you wish to keep a particular path from being crawled, you may enter it in the **Sitemap Generation Blacklist** box and press **Save**. After the crawler has run for the first time, if it encounters any pages marked ''do-not-cache'' they will be added to this Blacklist automatically. | ||
- | {{:litespeed_wiki:cache:lscwp:lscwp-crawler.png?direct&800|}} |