We don't want our websites to be down because the cache backend used, e.g. "redis" or "memcached" has a temporary issue. Instead, the page should be loaded, but trigger warnings and errors and such, but still render a page without active caches.

For this reason, we provide Cache Backends which simply catch all Exceptions.

We use this for High Availability projects, where a Redis sentinel cluster is not available but a Redis service is running on each application server to ensure that TYPO3 does never throw a 50x HTTP error because of a caching issue.

When running TYPO3 in Composer Mode composer req b13/graceful-cache or download the extension "graceful_cache" via the Extension Manager from extensions.typo3.org.

Use this in your LocalConfiguration.php or AdditionalConfiguration.php to e.g. reconfigure the "pages" Cache (or "cache_pages" prior to TYPO3 v10) to run with the graceful Redis Cache Backend:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['pages']['backend'] = \B13\GracefulCache\Backend\RedisCacheBackend::class;

Or configure with Memcached Cache Backend:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['SYS']['caching']['cacheConfigurations']['pages']['backend'] = \B13\GracefulCache\Backend\MemcachedCacheBackend::class;

The extension is licensed under GPL v2+, same as the TYPO3 Core. For details see the LICENSE file in this repository.

This extension was created by Benni Mack in 2020 for b13 GmbH.

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