How To Flush A Websites Cache?

Question

This question is specific exclusively to Azure, in their portal.

I have a test site that I run in Azure wordpress; when I try to see updates I make, I don't see them. Even if I flush my browser's cache, or access the site at a new location that's never been to the site, I do not see these changes. My next attempt was to delete everything on the wordpress site, and re-upload the site. This did nothing as well.

Based on my research, the only thing that I can figure is that Azure is keeping a copy of the pages somewhere in cache and this needs to be flushed. I tried restarting the app service plan, and looked through the Portal, but never saw an option to flush the cache in settings.

Just a review:

1. I tried flushing the browser's cache.
2. I tried removing all the files and re-uploading.
3. I tried restarting the app service plan in the Azure portal.

Everything still shows the old design.

I can verify the new design exists by looking at Appearance then Editor php pages; the page source when the site loads is completely wrong (and strange since the page no longer exists anywhere on the server).

Answer 1

Please try the following 2 options:

• set WEBSITE_DYNAMIC_CACHE to 0 , in App settings in your Azure Web Apps manage portal
• leverage the hint of How to: Use a custom PHP runtime to modify the setting in web.config in your root directory of your application.
  We can use the Azure build-in PHP runtime instead our custom PHP runtime mentioned above, consider the following content in web.config :
  <configuration> <system.webServer> <handlers> <add name="PHP-FastCGI" path="*.php" verb="GET,HEAD,POST" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="D:\\Program Files (x86)\\PHP\\v5.6\\php-cgi.exe" resourceType="Either" requireAccess="Script" responseBufferLimit="0"/> </handlers> </system.webServer> </configuration>