cPanel, NGINX and Wordpress

[VDS-agency]

Has anyone found a solution to clear the NGINX Proxy cache from within WordPress?

Many of our clients are completely new to anything web hosting related.

Just teaching them to log into WordPress and do basic editing can be a huge accomplishment.

Requiring them to do an additional login to a cPanel account just to clear the NGINX cache after even simple edits are made on their WordPress site is a huge stretch.

The best option would be to have the ability to clear the cPanel NGINX cache from within WordPress via a menu selection.

We have tried all the NGINX cache clearing plugins available at WordPress.org - none of these has any effect on the cPanel NGINX cache.

Any help or guidance here would be greatly appreciated.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! I don't have a way to do this as, you mentioned, the cache is specific to cPanel tools. This sounds like it would make a great feature request as something we could possibly add to our WordPress Toolkit implementation, so if you'd like to submit that using the link in my signature I can bring it up with the team during next week's meeting.

 

[VDS-agency]

I'm all for adding the option to WordPress Toolkit but that would still require a login to cPanel.

If there were some sort of "hook" or method to access the NGINX caching options from within WordPress I'm sure a simple WordPress plugin could be created to trigger the cache clearing. As far as I know, there does not seem to be any way to trigger the cache clearing from within WordPress.

As things are right now we can only enable the NGINX cache on a few of our hosted WordPress sites. This is really a shame as the NGINX cache greatly reduces the load on our hosts.

 

[cPRex]

I like that idea too - can you make that feature request?

 

[LEOPARDhost]

I like that idea too - can you make that feature request?

G'day Rex, I've created this now with supporting links. Fingers crossed you're able to prioritise it! Many thanks.

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/2...mple-plugin-to-purge-from-within-wordpress-wp

 

[cPRex]

I did approve that just now and I'll bring it up with the team next week!

 

[LEOPARDhost]

I did approve that just now and I'll bring it up with the team next week!

Many thanks Rex, how'd the meeting go?

The request has had 4 upvotes already.

 

[cPRex]

It's on the list, but doesn't have any action yet. Usually it's around a month or so before we make a decision on new requests, but one of the product owners will reply directly to the feature once that happens.

 

[dzamanakos]

Furthermore, you could add to your feature request that it would be great that this feature could be added in the cpanel's AccelerateWP plugin, so users can purge the website cache and nginx cache from the same buttons.

 

[LEOPARDhost]

you could add to your feature request that it would be great that this feature could be added in the cpanel's AccelerateWP plugin

Is that possible though - just on the basis that AccelerateWP is a CloudLinux product rather than cPanel/WebPros?

 

[dzamanakos]

Hi, my mistake, forgot that AccelerateWP is a CloudLinux product. We could add a feature request in cloudlinux if cpanel make an API to clear a user's cache.

bests,

 

[LEOPARDhost]

Usually it's around a month or so before we make a decision on new requests, but one of the product owners will reply directly to the feature once that happens.

Thanks for the update Rex, how's it going with the decision?

The feature request has 6 upvotes and 2 comments now.

 

[cPRex]

I haven't heard anything yet - I'll bring it up again today!

 

[jhawkins003]

I haven't heard anything yet - I'll bring it up again today!

Would love to hear any update on the inclusion of this for consideration! I agree with others on the thread that the lack of this utility has rendered cPanels NGINX toolkit useless for us.

 

[LEOPARDhost]

Would love to hear any update on the inclusion of this for consideration!

@cPRex how's it going with initial decision-making? People need this integration more than want it.

The feature request has been up for 2 months, has 10 upvotes, many comments, forum threads, etc.

Many thanks in advance for your update!

 

[cPRex]

I talked with the team this morning, and it sounds like anything that were to happen with this would need to happen not inside cPanel, but inside WordPress Toolkit. It does sound like the WordPress Toolkit team wants to explore this, although I don't have any idea on their work or timelines, but at this point it wouldn't be a separate tool created by cPanel that integrates directly in WordPress.

 

[LEOPARDhost]

It does sound like the WordPress Toolkit team wants to explore this, although I don't have any idea on their work or timelines

Thanks for the clarity. This is more specific than Adam (Product Owner?) on the Feature Request who's said:

We don't currently provide integrations that exist within WordPress. This is not to say we won't.

For that reason, I've transitioned this to open discussion in order to gain further feedback.

Are we able to please get a rough insight into WP Toolkit's workload/plan to implement?

ie. Would this be in 3, 6, 12 months time, if at all? So we can forge a plan. Thanks!

 

[VDS-agency]

While I am happy to see any movement on this issue adding this to WordPress Toolkit kind of defeats the purpose of the original request.

Most of our clients are not IT professionals. Teaching them how to log in and make simple edits in WordPress is usually a huge accomplishment.

If they have enough knowledge and experience to log into cpanel to clear the NGINX cache in WordPress Toolkit they could easily just click the already existing button in the cpanel dashboard to clear the NGINX cache.

What is so different about the way cpanel is implementing the NGINX proxy cache that prevents the already existing WordPress plugins that are specifically designed to clear this cache from working correctly? If I remember correctly, installing Engintron to get NGINX proxy caching to work on cpanel did not have this issue.

We are trying to avoid installing products like Engintron on our panel hosts to make support simpler but it seems like there may be no other option.

 

[cPRex]

@LEOPARDhost - unfortunately no, I don't have a good way to get that information as I'm not sure they know themselves just yet.

@VDS-agency - that make sense, I just don't have a "plan B" available on my end at this time, but 100% understand those concerns.

 

[LEOPARDhost]

We've now published a WordPress Plugin that provides a one-click Purge NGINX Cache button in the admin top bar:

https://github.com/LEOPARD-host/TNC-WP-Toolbox

It needs a cPanel API Token to be set in a static file above public_html for it to work. Hopefully it helps others. Thanks!