Index.html Not Immediately Updating

[csross]

I have Movable Type 3.16 installed on a RedHat server. When I was running 3.121, a very experienced user noticed that sometimes after he posted an entry, it didn't immediately show up on the index.html page. There were instances when it didn't show up for some time (although it did appear in the daily entries).

 

Has anyone experienced this?

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family csross

 

I removed the duplicate post. Sorry I don't have an answer for you. We have some experienced MT users here maybe they can shed some light on this for you.

[TCH-Rick]

The most likely problem is the page is either cached in the browser or the ISP is serving a cached page. You can set the browser default to check for a new page every time it is loaded. In IE this is under the Internet Options/General/Temporary Internet Files Settings.

[TCH-Bruce]

Thanks Rick, I always forget the obvious!

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, csross!

[csross]

The most likely problem is the page is either cached in the browser or the ISP  is serving a cached page. You can set the browser default to check for a new page every time it is loaded. In IE this is under the Internet Options/General/Temporary Internet Files Settings.

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Thanks. I'll tell him to give it a try.

[j2k4b]

Welcome to the forums... Glad to have ya!

[jwbowden]

I have Movable Type 3.16 installed on a RedHat server. When I was running 3.121, a very experienced user noticed that sometimes after he posted an entry, it didn't immediately show up on the index.html page. There were instances when it didn't show up for some time (although it did appear in the daily entries).

 

Has anyone experienced this?

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The simplest explanation is the browser caching, if the problem persists and it isn't caching (browser or server) then you might consider looking into the "dynamic publishing" feature of MT 3.15 and above.

 

Welcome to the Forum!

[TCH-BillH]

Welcome to the forums!

 

My vote is on Rick ... I bet your ISP is caching your page. It's happened to me a number of times. What a pain!

[TweezerMan]

I tend to favor the caching theory as well, but there is another possibility. MT rebuilds indexes and archive pages as a background task, and if something goes wrong during that process, it can sometimes die off without any error messages at all. This can leave the entry archive page updated (rebuild) because it is rebuilt first and in the foreground, but the main index page won't be updated until something else happens to trigger the main index page to be rebuilt again without an error.

 

I believe there was an MT bug on this kind of behavior, but I don't remember off-hand which MT3 versions are affected by it. It is fixed in the latest version of MT though.