` until its own `fastcgi_cache_valid` * window expires (an hour on a stock xCloud site). The observable bug is the * one every "purge did nothing" report describes: the admin edits a page, * clicks Purge All, xSpeed reports the files cleared, and the anonymous * visitor still gets yesterday's HTML. * * We do not talk to nginx ourselves, and we do not touch its cache directory. * The purge goes through **Nginx Helper** (rtCamp), which is the plugin the * host installs and configures alongside that cache — xCloud, for one, runs * `wp plugin install nginx-helper --activate`, writes its options and sets * `RT_WP_NGINX_HELPER_CACHE_PATH` when a site owner turns full-page caching * on. Nginx Helper owns the cache path, the key derivation and the options; * all of that is read-only to us, always. * * `rt_nginx_helper_purge_all` is an action Nginx Helper exposes for exactly * this — its own source comments it "expose action to allow other plugins to * purge the cache" (includes/class-nginx-helper.php) — so this is a supported * seam, not a reach into another plugin's internals. * * Detection is by constant and global only, never `is_plugin_active()` on a * path string: a renamed plugin folder must not silently turn the integration * off. Same rule as Render_Caches. * * **This class is the mechanism, not the policy.** It knows how to detect the * server cache and how to ask Nginx Helper to clear it. WHEN to ask is decided * one level up, by `Server_Caches::forward()`, from the `intent` and `scope` * on the purge-event contract — which is also where the reasoning for standing * down on a content purge is written. Nothing here listens to a hook. * * Purge-ALL only. Nginx Helper's per-URL entry point is * `$GLOBALS['nginx_purger']->purge_url()`, a method on its purger object * rather than an action, and it calls `is_page()`/`is_single()` internally — * which emits `_doing_it_wrong` outside a main query, so WP-CLI, cron and REST * purges would warn. The contract already carries the exact `urls`, so * per-URL forwarding is a follow-up rather than a redesign. * * **Multisite:** nginx keys one cache zone per *install*, not per subsite, so * a purge here clears every site on the network at the nginx layer. That is * accepted rather than worked around — a cold cache costs one slow request * per page, stale HTML costs a wrong page for the whole TTL. */ final class Host_Page_Caches { /** * The site option Nginx Helper stores its configuration in. Network-wide * on multisite, which is why it is read with `get_site_option()`. */ private const NH_OPTION = 'rt_wp_nginx_helper_options'; /** * The `cache_method` value that means "nginx FastCGI full-page cache". * The other one Nginx Helper supports is `enable_redis`, which is a * page cache in Redis fronted by nginx's `srcache` module — a different * layer, not present on the hosts this integration targets, and not * something a purge from here should reach for. */ private const NH_FASTCGI = 'enable_fastcgi'; /** * Forward a full purge to the server-level cache, when there is one. * * No gate on the purge's reason here — `Server_Caches::forward()` has * already decided this purge should reach the server layer. Detection is * still checked, because it is a fact about the environment rather than * about the purge, and it is only stable at purge time: Nginx Helper * builds `$GLOBALS['nginx_purger']` from its own `plugins_loaded` * callback, so anything asked earlier races its load order. * * Re-entrancy is handled upstream. A third-party listener on * `rt_nginx_helper_purge_all` that calls back into `Cache::purge_all()` * used to recurse here until PHP ran out of stack, which is what the * latch this method once carried was for. The inner purge now re-enters * `Cache::dispatch_purge_event()`, whose `$purge_events_in_flight` guard * is still held by the outer one and returns before any adapter runs. * Pinned by a test that recurses through `Cache::purge_all()` itself * rather than through this method. * * @return bool Whether the purge was forwarded. */ public static function purge_nginx_helper(): bool { if ( ! self::nginx_helper_is_fastcgi() ) { return false; } try { // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound -- Nginx Helper's own public integration hook; an xspeed_-prefixed name would reach nothing. do_action( 'rt_nginx_helper_purge_all' ); } catch ( \Throwable $e ) { /* * The same third-party listeners the latch above exists for can * also throw, and everything on this action is code we do not * own. Letting it out would take down `Cache::purge_all()` — the * admin presses Purge All, another plugin's mu-plugin fatals, and * the failure reads as xSpeed's. The local sweep has already * happened by the time we run, so swallowing this costs the * server layer and nothing else. `Server_Caches::forward()` * catches around this call for the same reason and logs it under * WP_DEBUG; this inner catch is what turns a throw into an honest * "not forwarded" return rather than a reported purge. */ return false; } return true; } /** * Whether Nginx Helper is present AND configured against an nginx FastCGI * cache. * * Three separate facts, because each one alone is a false positive: * * 1. `RT_WP_NGINX_HELPER_CACHE_PATH` — there is a directory to purge, and * we know which one, because Health names it. * * Do NOT read this as evidence the host configured anything. Nginx * Helper defines the constant itself whenever it is not already set, * defaulting to `/var/run/nginx-cache` through its own * `rt_wp_nginx_helper_cache_path` filter (its * `includes/class-nginx-helper.php`, in the constructor). So it is * defined on every install and cannot be missing while the plugin is * loaded — the only way past this check is a WordPress older than the * plugin's minimum, where it returns before the `define`. * * On a site where the host never set a path, that default is what * Nginx Helper would unlink, so it is also what we forward a purge * against and what Health names. That directory usually does not * exist, making its `purge_all()` a no-op we would report as a purge. * Left alone deliberately: it is exactly what the admin gets from * Nginx Helper's own Purge All button, and second-guessing another * plugin's configured path is not ours to do. * 2. `$GLOBALS['nginx_purger']` — the plugin finished booting and built a * purger. The constant can be defined in `wp-config.php` by a host * whose site owner then deactivated the plugin, in which case the * action has no listener and firing it is a silent no-op we would * still report as a purge. * 3. `cache_method === 'enable_fastcgi'` — it is the page cache we mean. * On `enable_redis` the same action clears a Redis key space that * xSpeed's own object-cache flush may already own. * * Note what is deliberately NOT in the gate: `enable_purge`. That option * governs Nginx Helper's own AUTOMATIC purging — its post-save, comment * and term hooks each check it — and does not reach `purge_all()`, which * runs whatever it is set to. An admin who switched automatic purging off * has said "don't purge behind my back"; they have not said "ignore me * when I press Purge All". Reading it as the latter would leave an * explicit, operator-initiated purge silently short of the layer actually * serving the page, which is the exact failure this integration exists to * fix. `nginx_helper_purges_changes()` does read it, only to decide * whether a content purge can be left to Nginx Helper. */ public static function nginx_helper_is_fastcgi(): bool { return null !== self::nginx_helper_cache_path(); } /** * The cache directory Nginx Helper is pointed at, or null when the * integration does not apply. Read-only — we never define the constant * and never write the option. * * Health reports the path; the gate only cares whether there is one. */ public static function nginx_helper_cache_path(): ?string { if ( ! defined( 'RT_WP_NGINX_HELPER_CACHE_PATH' ) ) { return null; } $path = (string) constant( 'RT_WP_NGINX_HELPER_CACHE_PATH' ); if ( '' === $path ) { return null; } if ( ! isset( $GLOBALS['nginx_purger'] ) || ! is_object( $GLOBALS['nginx_purger'] ) ) { return null; } $options = get_site_option( self::NH_OPTION ); if ( ! is_array( $options ) || self::NH_FASTCGI !== ( $options['cache_method'] ?? '' ) ) { return null; } return $path; } /** * Whether Nginx Helper purges changed pages by itself. * * Its `enable_purge` option is the one switch in front of all of its * automatic purging: the post, comment and term hooks each return early * without it. It defaults to off, so an install where the host never * turned it on purges nothing when a post is published. Not part of the * detection gate above; `Server_Caches` asks it only to decide whether a * content purge can be left to Nginx Helper. */ public static function nginx_helper_purges_changes(): bool { $options = get_site_option( self::NH_OPTION ); return is_array( $options ) && ! empty( $options['enable_purge'] ); } /** * The configured purge method (`unlink_files`, `get_request`, …), or '' * when unset. Health uses it to decide whether the permissions caveat * applies; nothing gates on it. */ public static function nginx_helper_purge_method(): string { $options = get_site_option( self::NH_OPTION ); return is_array( $options ) ? (string) ( $options['purge_method'] ?? '' ) : ''; } }