Exclude header.phtml from Lesti FPC?

Question

I tried excluding page/html/header.phtml from caching with Lesti FPC, but failed so far. How can I exclude that template file?

Magento 1.9.3

Answer 1

Always read the documentation first

You cannot exclude a specific phtml file from the cache. What you can do is exclude a layout block by it's name.

Once you have the name of the layout you can set it as a lazy or dynamic blocks. More on that here

The documentation also includes a handy little post for getting the name of your block in Magento source

here's what you need to do:

1. Open up your header.phtml
2. add in the following <?php echo $this->getNameInLayout(); ?>
3. Load the frontend of your website
4. you shoudld get something like header
5. That's the name of your block! copy it and paste it in the settings for dynamic blocks