Cache Warmer Extension for Magento 2

The Magento Full Page Cache Crawler / Warmer guarantees that your Full Page Cache solution remains continuously “warmed up,” enabling your store pages to be delivered at optimal speed. This extension is designed with efficient coding to minimize bandwidth, CPU usage, and crawling duration. Additionally, the Cache Warmer provides the option to exclude products that are unlikely to be viewed by your customers, such as hidden products and child products of configurable items.

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User Guide

We highly recommend gathering all the below information, before starting the installation.

Prerequisites

Make sure the cron is configured and running. You can find the details from here: Configure and run cron

Installation Procedure

  • Download your extension package from the Download page after purchasing the extension.

  • Open the extension ZIP file you downloaded and extract it to a directory on your computer using a tool like WinRar, WinZIP or similar.

  • Upload the extracted folders and files into the root directory of your Magento installation. The root directory of Magento is the folder that contains the directories “app”, “bin”, “lib” and more. All folders should match the existing folder structure. If one of our extensions is already installed and you’re updating it, make sure to overwrite the existing files of the extension.

  • Connect via SSH and run the following commands (make sure to run them as the user who owns the Magento files!

    php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_Core

php bin/magento module:enable --clear-static-content Extendware_CacheWarmer

php bin/magento maintenance:enable

php bin/magento setup:upgrade

php bin/magento setup:di:compile

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

php bin/magento maintenance:disable

  • In case if you still do not see the extension active, Go to Admin -> System -> Cache Management and click both the ‘Flush Magento Cache’ as well as the ‘Flush Cache Storage’ button.

  • Woo-ha! You have successfully installed the extension and your store is ready to protect from spammers and bad bots.

Configuration

You will find all extendware settings in Admin Panel → Extendware Menu

menu_section

To configure the extension you need to go to Admin Panel → Extendware Menu → CacheWarmer → Configuration.

config_page

Configuration Overview

Module Enable - Select Yes to enable the module.

Max Threads - Setting this field will determine the number of URLs processed concurrently. Increasing this value will decrease the overall crawl time by a factor of the number multiplied by the number of URLs. However, it will also increase the server load.

Crawl Delay - This field controls the time interval, measured in minutes, between the execution of the next job and the completion of the last job.

URL Filters - This allows you to specify a regular expression, separated by semicolons, that will exclude URLs matching the given pattern. For example, using the expression “/test/” will exclude any URLs that contain the string “test”.

Exclude URL Types - Select the types of URLs that should be excluded from the crawling process.

Custom URLs - Specify any additional URLs to be included in the crawling process.

Show cache HIT or MISS on frontend - Show the cache status, indicating whether it is a cache hit or cache miss, on the frontend interface

Comma separated IPs for the above block to be shown for. - Provide a list of comma-separated IP addresses for which the block should be displayed.

Is store htaccess protected? - Enable/Disable the “Store” protected by an .htaccess file.

Htaccess auth user - Specify the username for authentication.

Htaccess auth pass - Provide the password for authentication.

Run Cache Warmer

To trigger the cache warmer you need to go to Admin Panel → System → Tools → Cache Management and click on Warm Cache using CacheWarmer

cache-warmer

You can also run cache warmer from console

Run: php bin/magento cache-warmer:crawl

Note: For a larger number of URLs, exceeding 100, it is recommended to utilize cron or a CLI command instead of using the direct method.

View Job Status

All the running or queued jobs will be displayed on Admin Panel → Extendware Menu → CacheWarmer → CacheWarmer jobs.

cache-warmer-jobs

View URLs Status

All the running or queued jobs will be displayed on Admin Panel → Extendware Menu → CacheWarmer → CacheWarmer URLs.

cache-warmer-urls

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented here.

[1.3.7]

Added

  • Added new option: Customer Group-based Warmth Option.

[1.3.6]

Fixed

  • Update menu sorting in the admin view.

[1.3.5]

Fixed

Fix deprecated methods to resolve code sniffer issues

[1.3.4]

Fixed

- Apply the Code Sniffer modifications to the code.

[1.3.3]

Fixed

- Resolved PHP conflicts due to php require version in composer

[1.3.2]

Removed

- Method return type declaration to resolve conflicts with PHP 7.4

[1.3.1]

Fixed

- Fix: Incorporate missing data from the 'cachewarmer_url' table
- Fix: Refactor code and enhance crawl console functionality
- Fix: Consolidated PHP version range to ">=5.5.22 <8.1" for flexibility

Added

- Filter generated URLs by URL type

[1.3.0]

Fixed

- Fix: Compilation issues with Php8.1

Added

- Support Magento 2.4.6 with PHP8.1

[1.2.0]

Added

- Include composer and License file

[1.1.0]

Added

- First release