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I just inherited a Magento site. The last guy left without leaving any notes/documentation. :) I know we're using AMFPC because the module is installed and enabled, and the business team has a process to flush it at certain times (and the site gets a little bit slower when they do this until the cache is warmed up). I'm trying to figure out where the cache is actually storing data.

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Is it on disk somewhere? Or is it on a separate cache server?

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We have a cache server running memcached so I'm wondering how I can tell if AMFPC is pointed at memcached somehow. We have 2 web servers so I'm hoping it's a distributed cache so it can be shared between both servers, but I don't know how to check.

I checked app/etc/amfpc.xml as well as the module in Magento Admin but couldn't find anything.

Can someone explain how to trace what is backing the AMFPC?

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I checked folders in MAGENTO_ROOT/var and found the full_page_cache and amasty_cache are both empty:

[myuser@webserver var]$ ls amasty_fpc cache full_page_cache locks log report resource_config.json sli tmp [myuser@webserver var]$ du amasty_fpc/ 4 amasty_fpc/ [myuser@webserver var]$ du full_page_cache/ 4 full_page_cache/mage--tags 16 full_page_cache/ [myuser@webserver var]$ sudo du cache/ 80 cache/mage--b 3048 cache/mage--d 256 cache/mage--7 3200 cache/mage--9 340 cache/mage--5 308 cache/mage--1 224 cache/mage--4 101584 cache/mage--f 852 cache/mage--6 552 cache/mage--2 5212 cache/mage--3 3220 cache/mage--c 236 cache/mage--8 8504 cache/mage--e 3000 cache/mage--0 200 cache/mage--a 130820 cache/

However, cache appears to be populated. Not sure what that one does anyway. I also checked app/etc/local.xml and found this:

<session_save><![CDATA[memcache]]></session_save> <session_save_path><![CDATA[tcp://<IP_ADDRESS_OF_MY_CACHE_SERVER:11211?persistent=1&weight=2&timeout=10&retry_interval=10]]></session_save_path>

That matches the IP and port of my memcached server so I think it's safe to say we are using memcached for saving session data.

I didn't find anything useful in app/etc/enterprise.xml or in app/etc/amfpc.xml.

Is there any definitive place to look to see where AMFPC is storing the cached pages?

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Congrats for inheriting a Magento site :). I'm a big fan of Amasty's full page caching system. It works really well, usually without any tricky configuration.

On a single server installation, the cache files are often going to be in the /var/ directory.

If you're running two front end Web servers, then it is more likely that it's in a memcached instance or reddis location that can be easily accessed by both servers.

I would check the local.xml file in the /app/etc/ directory - this is usually where the location to the reddis or memcached instance is referenced.

Quick edit: I just noticed that you're running Magento Enterprise 1.13; that has it's own full page caching system. (Usually we wouldn't see Amasty full page cache running on an Enterprise site, as full page cache is a built-in feature of Magento Enterprise.) There's also another xml file to check in the /app/etc/ directory that deals with full page caching as well; I think it's the enterprise.xml file, so check there.

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  • Thanks, @Jeff Finkelstein. I'll check those locations. I know we tried using the built-in FPC before my time, but Amasty was supposedly better when we tried so we stuck with it. Commented Feb 17, 2017 at 21:53
  • I updated the question for more details. TY! Commented Feb 17, 2017 at 22:08

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