James Wilson –blog

In order to get WP-Cache to work with an account on Netfirms, you have to go through a few extra steps. In order to do these, you need to have SSH enabled, and have some sort of way to connect to it, like PuTTY on Windows.

First, download the wp-cache files and upload them to your plugins directory.

Then, connect via SSH and cd to your wordpress directory, and chmod 'wp-content' to 777. This is done by executing, chmod 0777 wp-content.

Now, go to the Plugins tab in your Wordpress admin panel, and activate WP-Cache.

Next, go to the Options->WP-Cache tab and click Enable it.

This will show an error and your blog will not be accessible. This is expected, and will be fixed quickly

Now, connect via SSH and cd to your wp-content directory, and chmod the 'cache directory' to 777. This is done by chmod 0777 cache.

Now, you need to create a symbolic link and chmod that correctly. This is done by:

ln -s plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache-phase1.php advanced-cache.php
chmod 0777 advanced-cache.php

Now, reload the Options->Wp-Cache page. Click Enable it again, and it now should be enabled and working.

If you have problems, you can disable WP-Cache by editing wp-config.php and removing the line
define('WP_CACHE',true);