The LiteSpeed Cache plugin is a MediaWiki extension for MediaWiki sites running on a OpenLiteSpeed webserver. Enable its LSCache feature to speed up page loading, reduce response time, and tremendously reduce server load for MediaWiki sites.
MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia). It is a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database. It is a fairly popular wiki application on the web.
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Prerequisites
This version of LiteSpeedCache requires MediaWiki 1.25 or later and OpenLiteSpeed 1.4.28 or later.
Download
wget https://github.com/litespeedtech/lscache_mediawiki/archive/master.zipUnzip the downloaded file with:
unzip master.zipInstall
- Move the LiteSpeedCache directory to /extensions in the MediaWiki directory.
- Edit LocalSettings.php in the MediaWiki root directory, and add the following near the end: wfLoadExtension( ‘LiteSpeedCache’ );
- Log in to MediaWiki and from the administrator panel, navigate to Special pages > Data and Tools > LiteSpeed Cache.
Settings
Edit the page to enable public cache:
Set LiteSpeed Public Cache Enabled to checked and save the page.
Verify Cache Setup
If a resource is served from LiteSpeed Cache, the server response header contains X-LiteSpeed-Cache: Hit.
Load the URL https://yourdomain.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and check the headers through the Network tab of the browser’s developer tool. You should see something like this:
GET /wiki/index.php/Main_Page HTTP/1.1 Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate, br Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 cache-control public, max-age=2592000 server LiteSpeed vary Accept-Encoding, Cookie x-litespeed-cache hit