I gave my best effort to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious.

From the docs, to enable static cacheing:

1) Create a new directory in your document root (where index.php is) named static.
* Done!

2) Make sure speedy_static_enabled is not disabled in your config.php file.
* Done

3) Add the following code to the top of your .htaccess file (or create one if it does not exist).
* Done

4) At minimum, your config.php file should have the following for static caching to work: ‘$config[‘speedy_driver’] = ‘static’;’
* Done

5) Complete the installation in the Speedy control panel page.
* NOT done

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I’m on a Plesk server, where Nginx proxies requests to Apache. The .htaccess is definitely used (in a proxy setup, I assume nginx directives are also used.

Here is the top of my config.php

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4bbkmxjbrovyd3c/Screen%20Shot%202020-11-22%20at%209.04.11%20AM.png?dl=0

(Is it colliding with the existing ‘$config[‘cache_driver’] = ‘file’;’ line?)

Here is the top of my .htaccess

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1gtac6o8xwxfxe3/Screen%20Shot%202020-11-22%20at%208.59.51%20AM.png?dl=0

Here are my Nginx directives, configured in Plesk (where they are supposed to go)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukznc9lb0negcwf/Screen%20Shot%202020-11-22%20at%209.00.32%20AM.png?dl=0

(there ARE a few directives above Speedy’s, which I’ve not yet removed.

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I can’t yet enable the Static driver in Speedy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/231ge193ee9a3tt/Screen%20Shot%202020-11-22%20at%209.01.44%20AM.png?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipkqkkl9hxfg8zf/Screen%20Shot%202020-11-22%20at%209.02.01%20AM.png?dl=0

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TL;DR Are there steps to enable static that I’m missing? I made httpdocs/static, added ‘$config[‘speedy_driver’] = ‘static’;’ to my config.php.