I got some images that despite being updated a few days ago, still won't appear properly. Instead the old version displays.
These being
https://idleon.info/wiki/File:Goblin_Gorfest_Totem.gif
https://idleon.info/wiki/File:Acorn_Assault_Totem.gif
and
https://idleon.info/wiki/File:Frigid_Soul.png (though this one is a bit more recent)
Could you please look into this? Far from the first time this has happened and it drives me nuts every time. :(
It's definitely something funky on the cache proxy, as they display the updated version for me (edit: it displays updated for some, but not others). I'm not certain if there's anything we could do to make sure these don't get stuck like this regularly. We should look for a long term solution, IMO.
All Varnish cache expires within a week. After that it becomes definitely local cache or client side not server side. I talked with paladox about this awhile ago and was given a we can't do anything about this further answer. Therefore closing as invalid since nothing we can do and they would update eventually. If someone comes up with a solution feel free to reopen though.
On uploads and certain other actions, mediawiki should be sending a purge request to the CDNs (Varnish) that should clear the cache. The fact that this isn't happening for us would appear to be a bug.
Yeah, I've confirmed that we have some sort of issue with MediaWiki sending PURGE requests to static.miraheze.org:
Error fetching URL "https://static.miraheze.org/test3wiki/7/7f/Testing.png": (curl error: 56) Failure when receiving data from the peer
I've confirmed in graylog that this issue pops up for upload actions across multiple wikis, and can generate it using purgeList.php.
For another example:
https://30xx.miraheze.org/wiki/Juiced_Reserves & https://30xx.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Juiced_Reserves.png (and for clarification, https://30xx.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Juiced_Reserves_0.22.2.png)
For context on what I'm doing: Moving the old Juiced_Reserves.png to Juiced_Reserves_0.22.2.png (so I can use the old image in the history section), and creating a new Juiced_Reserves.png with the new sprite from 0.23. It appears like the old 0.22.2 version, but I know that the 0.23 version is the one that's uploaded. I'm basically just pretending it looks like it should right now, because I know serverside the images will update within a few days.
This bug has been confusing some editors of the 30XX Wiki, along with just making it pretty awkward to update images in general.
The cause for this is the same as https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285504, however, we've already fixed that issue for wiki pages. Instead, the problem we are having is caused due to the image URL being set as https://static.miraheze.org/whatever. We need to tell the file repo, (or perhaps make some other change) to strip https from this url and replace it with http so the purge request can be properly proxied to the server.