╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ 🎯 ROOT CAUSE FOUND & PERMANENTLY SOLVED 🎯 ║ ╚════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ 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: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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! 🎉