Multisite generation not creating sub folders for multisite

[aarodriguezfernandez]

Hi @ammannbe

I am testing the plugin on my local environment.

When I try to generate cache it doesn't start. It runs the queue job, which it shows for a second and no pages get cached till I hit the pages with a curl command which generates the caches only for 1 language.

For the other languages, I would like it to generate:
www.site.com/fr/about/index.html (site 1)

But it does keep the baseUrl (baseUrl/Uri) without the siteurl (baseUrl/siteUrl/Uri)

Our environments, apart from production are password protected.

Can you please help me determine if pagecache could fit our needs?

[ammannbe]

Hi @aarodriguezfernandez

About the cache generation:

I assume you generate the cache through the CLI?
It's possible that the initial generation has an issue which I need to check.

But you have two options to generate the cache:

• Through the control panel
• If you open each page manually in the browser

Both options needs to be done for each language (in the control panel switch the language).

About the languages:

If you have the languages configured as Sub-URL (e.g. www.site.com/de, www.site.com/en etc.), you should also get sub-directories in your folder structure.

About password protection:

What protection do you use? The caching normally only works if the page can also be accessed without any protection.
Maybe you could e.g. white-label the server IP, if you really need caching in development or staging.

Does that help you?

[aarodriguezfernandez]

Many thanks for your response @ammannbe.

About the cache generation

• I run it once through the CLI. Without results (I suppose the ssl I have set up locally?)
  • Then everytime I warm a page with curl -k it would generate it. But if it is a localized site. It is not generating the /site/ folder.
• Also tried individually. No generation (I suppose the ssl I have set up locally?)

Both options needs to be done for each language (in the control panel switch the language).

What option is this one? Is it the Included URL's? I have it for all sites (dropdown) and .* (Included URL's)

About the languages:

I have the languages configured with their own url on craft settings.
I have their baseUrl set using @web/siteUrl for each of the sites. Would this be the issue? I still can't see the folders generated.

About password protection:

We have 2 environments (blue/green) and the preproduction environment is always password protected. But it is where we normally cache 1 site first to have production begin with the main site cached.

Maybe you could e.g. white-label the server?

How could I do that?

[ammannbe]

I have the languages configured with their own url on craft settings.
I have their baseUrl set using @web/siteUrl for each of the sites. Would this be the issue? I still can't see the folders generated.

I would have to see how the sites are setup, and the required configurations for the plugin.
Do you see any errors in the logs?
Do you see if under web/pagecache/www.site.com/ the files are missing?
Do you see anything in your database tables pagecache_pagecachequeuerecord and pagecache_pagecacherecords?
In the first is for the queue job and the second one stores the actually cached sites.

Maybe you could e.g. white-label the server?
How could I do that?

This depends on how you setup the password protection. That's out of this plugin scope IMO.
If you've setup a basic auth (.htpasswd) or something similar, the caching won't work with the CLI warming.
But if you manually warm the cache through curl, the password protection shouldn't be a problem.

You can write me an email with access to your project, so I could have a look into it.

[aarodriguezfernandez]

Thanks for your response @ammannbe

Unfortunately I can't share access to the sites. We use the server password protect method.

Files being added

After clearing the plugin's cache.
Files are added, But only on the first site (br) I warm them
curl -s -o /dev/null -k https://my.site.com/br/about

Table: pagecache_pagecacherecords
id uid elementId siteId url tags dateCreated dateUpdated
4049 48059a1e-a700-4b22-8033-82f53e200477 355 10 /about NULL 2025-07-18 16:17:38 2025-07-18 16:17:38

• No br url added.
• my.site.com/about/index.html added as brazilian

• If I try and add another about page with or without /siteUrl/ it doesn't add anything else

Plugin set up. No config file created:

My sites settings:

[ammannbe]

I just did a test with a fresh Craft CMS 5.8.8 installation and everything works as expected.

Maybe some pitfalls you should be aware of:

• That a site can be cached, an entry with an URL must exist.
• If you're logged in, the page won't be cached if you open it within the same browser.

My test setup looks as following:

The folder structure after fetching all pages manually:

The database entries:

The section I've created:

My working plugin settings:

When a page is successfully cached, you'll see a comment at the end of the HTML:

</html>
<!-- Cached by Page Cache at 2025-07-20T14:18:09 -->

[ammannbe]

@aarodriguezfernandez could you check if that worked on your site?

[aarodriguezfernandez]

@ammannbe thanks so much for all the insights!
I was not able to test it yet. I am aiming to check it between the end of this week and the beginning of the next one.