Tech explanation needed of magical site 'caching'

[Sonny Forelli]

Curious if anyone could enlighten me.

I have a site on a hostnine reseller account (that I use soley as a dev box) which I'm editing yet no changes are now showing up.

This is verified across machines, and about a half dozen friends around the country.

I went to far as to rename index.php to indexhidden.php to see if they could still connect to the site and sure enough they can.

I'm familiar w/ stupid browser caching, but is there some possibility that they're having issues and while I can seemingly ftp in fine and create/modify files are presenting a cached version from a few hours ago off the box to the world?


I dont' even particularly care, I just moved the DNS over to my production dedicated box, however I'm more just baffled. Black magic at work?

Time to quit for the day and have a few drinks?

Thanks for any inquisitive indulgence.

 

[Nostalgae]

Could you access indexhidden.php directly once you renamed it to that?

 

[Sonny Forelli]

Could you access indexhidden.php directly once you renamed it to that?

good question- no

 

[justo_tx]

Are you sure the FTP path and the virtual directory map to the same location on the file system, you could be dealing with two different locations. I've done this before on a server with lots of sites.

 

[Sonny Forelli]

Are you sure the FTP path and the virtual directory map to the same location on the file system, you could be dealing with two different locations. I've done this before on a server with lots of sites.

they did, i've been working on this project all week. I'm thinking perhaps that's the issue and hostnine changed and fucked something up.

I was just baffled, figured it had to be something on their end that changed.

 

[dchuk]

Are you sure the FTP path and the virtual directory map to the same location on the file system, you could be dealing with two different locations. I've done this before on a server with lots of sites.

That seems like exactly what's happening

 

[cardine]

Are you sure the FTP path and the virtual directory map to the same location on the file system, you could be dealing with two different locations. I've done this before on a server with lots of sites.

I've done this way too many times.