A symfony tip: Clear the cache without the command line

If you follow the symfony mailing-lists or the symfony forums, you already know the magic answer for all your symfony problems:

Please, try to clear the cache!

It means you have to call the clear-cache task from the command line (or cache:clear in symfony 1.1):

$ symfony clear-cache

…or use the cc shortcut:

$ symfony cc

But what if you don’t have access to the command line on your server? What if you only have a FTP account?

The answer is amazingly quite simple.

All cache files are stored in a single cache/ directory located in the project root directory.

So, to clear the cache, you can just remove all the files and directories under cache/. And symfony is smart enough to re-create the directory structure it needs if it does not exist.