Setup W3total cache on NGINX

W3 Total Cache:

W3 Total  Cache is one of the best caching plugin for WordPress. It improves your dynamic site performance by reducing page loading time, minifying, content delivery networking and so more. It's a powerful caching plugin for all WordPress blog. However, it's a little bit confusing to configure this plugin properly for WordPress. Moreover, in NGINX, you have to do some extra tweaks so that it can work perfectly on NGINX webserver. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to install this plugin and configure it properly in WordPress and NGINX web server.

 

Installing W3 Total Cache plugin:

1. Login in your wordpres admin panel/dashboard.

2. Go to "Plugins" menu from left and from drop down menu, click "Add new"

3. In search box, type "W3 Total Cache"

4. Click "Install Now" button under " W3 Total Cache" & confirm the dialogue box.

5. After successfully install, click, "Activate Plugin"

Configuring W3 Total Cache:

1. After enabling the plugin, click "Performance" option from left menu.

2. Enable "Page Cache". In "Page Cache Method" section, select "Disk Enhanced" from drop down menu.

3. Enable "Database Cache" & form "Database Cache Method", select "Opcode: Alternative PHP Cache (APC)".

4. Scroll down. In "Miscellaneous" section, add this address in "Nginx server configuration file path" field

/home/public_html/nginx.conf

Note: You can specify any directory instead of /public_html folder/directory.

5. Click "Save all settings"

Configuring in NGINX:

1. Login in your webmin control panel as root.

2. Go to Webmin tab > Servers> Nginx webserver

3. Click "Edit Configuration Files"

4. Scroll down until you find location ~ \.php$ block

5. Just above of this block, add this line

include /home//public_html/nginx.conf;

6. Click "Save"

7. Restart NGINX webserver.

W3 Total cache plugin successfully configured for NGINX.