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I am working on a site that has potential to attract a lot of traffic, says my client. I am reading here and there how to build efficient, for speed. One of the things I am looking at is the use of Stash for caching pages with static content. (I did use Stash for something else in another project)
My questions. 1) Is the pages module enough for this? 2) Is a htaccess file needed for page caching with Stash? The documentation makes me a bit unsure.
Thanks.
Mod_rewrite rules for caching are only needed if you're using the static cache method.
Static caching works by writing the HTML output of an EE template to a static file; when the browser requests a URL, mod_rewrite in .htaccess will check to see if that static file exists, if it does, it will serve the HTML from the static file, and, EE won't even be aware the request took place.
If the static HTML file doesn't exist, EE will handle the request as usual (with the Pages module), and, if static caching is enabled for the page, write the output of the page load to the static cache, so the next user who requests that page will get content from the file, instead of from EE, if that makes sense.
