cache folder doesn't regenerate once deleted

[fleabeard69]

I'm fairly sure I've deleted my cache folder before and it gets regenerated after, but it doesn't appear to be doing so anymore. Am I missremembering things, or is there another way to regenerate the cache folder?

For reference it's the www/cache folder I'm talking about here.

[theChaosCoder]

It will be auto-generated once you visit the site again. There's no other way.

[fleabeard69]

I was hoping it would auto-generate after visiting the site again but it has not. I've even gone as far as to reboot the server that I host it on and it never comes back.

Looking at the nginx error.log I show this:
2024/03/11 14:28:26 [error] 248#248: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to a member function prepare() on null in /config/www/inc/database.class.php:39 Stack trace: #0 /config/www/index.php(16): Database->query() #1 {main} thrown in /config/www/inc/database.class.php on line 39" while reading response header from upstream, client: 172.18.0.4, server: _, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "analytics.website.com"

[theChaosCoder]

Did you check cache folder permissioins?

[fleabeard69]

That's the problem. I've deleted the cache folder and it's not auto-generating. I can re-create it on my own and give it the same exact permissions as all the others and it never generates any files in it.

[theChaosCoder]

Please try 777 to make sure its not a permission problem. And make sure user and/or group is the correct one.
I think the system expects a cache folder, but does not create one itself.

[fleabeard69]

Here's what I've had this whole time on that newly created cache folder.

drwxrwxr-x 2 fleabeard fleabeard 4096 Mar 11 13:18 cache

[theChaosCoder]

That's 775. Please try 777 on cache. Depending on how your php+webserver is running you need a different user owner (like www-data). This could be the reason why it can not write anything.

[fleabeard69]

Thanks, I've since tried 777 but no love. All my other folders are showing my name/group as the owner and seems to working fine. I don't really need to track analytics anymore anyway, so I'm just going to go ahead and delete things and dismantle it all together.

Thanks anyways for your help as always!

[theChaosCoder]

Did you upgrade to a newer php version? Not sure if it supports 8.3...