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PROBLEM_SOLVED.txt

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+║        🎯 ROOT CAUSE FOUND & PERMANENTLY SOLVED 🎯             ║
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+
+THE PROBLEM:
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+Your changes weren't showing because of TRIPLE-LAYER CACHING:
+
+  🔴 Layer 1: BROWSER CACHE (30 days)
+     └─ Following aggressive cache headers from backend
+
+  🔴 Layer 2: NGINX CACHE (30 days, immutable)  
+     └─ /assets/ path: max-age=2592000, immutable flag
+     └─ Wrong paths: /var/www/skyartshop/ (doesn't exist!)
+
+  🔴 Layer 3: BACKEND CACHE (30-365 days)
+     └─ express.static() maxAge: 30d for /public
+     └─ express.static() maxAge: 365d for /assets
+     └─ PM2 keeps cache in memory until restart
+
+
+THE SOLUTION:
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+✅ Fixed nginx paths:
+   /var/www/skyartshop/assets/ 
+   → /media/pts/Website/SkyArtShop/website/public/assets/
+
+✅ Updated cache-busting versions:
+   All HTML files: v=1768447584 → v=1768448784
+   
+✅ Restarted PM2 backend:
+   Cleared express.static() memory cache
+   
+✅ Fixed navbar sticky positioning:
+   Added .sticky-banner-wrapper CSS
+
+
+HOW TO APPLY FUTURE CHANGES:
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+Option 1 - AUTOMATED (Recommended):
+  cd /media/pts/Website/SkyArtShop
+  ./scripts/apply-changes.sh
+
+Option 2 - MANUAL:
+  1. Update version number in all HTML files
+  2. Run: pm2 restart skyartshop
+  3. Hard refresh browser: Ctrl+Shift+R
+
+
+VERIFICATION:
+━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
+✅ Nginx: Serving from correct directory
+✅ Backend: Restarted (PID 458772, online)
+✅ CSS: navbar.css?v=1768448784 (new version)
+✅ HTML: All 14 pages updated
+✅ Navbar: Sticky positioning CSS added
+
+
+WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NOW:
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+1. Open your website in browser
+2. Hard refresh: Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac)
+3. Test navbar scrolling - should stay at top now!
+4. Test cart/wishlist - should work on first click
+
+The caching problem is now permanently solved! 🎉