CS-Cart editing .tpl files and cache refresh - caching

I am doing some simple hooks and some more advanced ones for a customer. (CS-Cart 2.1.4)
I have 2 websistes (production site and test site)...the two environment are not exactly the same, sadly
If I edit anything in a TPL file in the test environment, I simply save+upload on FTP and the edits are immediately visible on test website...
If I do the same edits on production environment, then save+upload on FTP, nothing changes on the storefront...
I understand it has probably something to do with template caching, and i should run mysite.com/admin.php?cc
The problem is I am the new webmaster, the old one left arguing with customer, I don't know what he has left exactly and I am afraid of refreshing production cache and "destroying" everything...(the website makes about 1M Euros/year...just to tell you what...). what if he has made some changes on the template and never refreshed cache???
Any suggestion on how to see my edits to those damned .tpl files???

To avoid clearing cache manually (by &cc) you should to change the Store mode.
Open the Admin area (any page) and look at the page bottom: http://screencast.com/t/aS2aG7oYTg
Your Store is working in Live mode and the Smart Template Engine does not check the changes in file. Click once this link and the Store mode will be changed to the "Development". Cache will be updated automatically.
P.S. You can delete var/cache and var/compiled. Store will not be destroyed :)

I solved it, by creating a clone of the Virtual Machine , editing there, and then replicated edits on main production site after being 100% sure there were no issues when clearing the cache ;-)

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You can check to see if you have vQmod installed like this:
yoursite.com/vqmod/install
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Unbeknownst to me, Cloudflare defaults to caching all css/js files for 4 hours.
Scenario:
I add this to our front page:
<span class="test">hullo!</span>
and this to our css file:
.test { font-size:2.0em; }
I do a web deploy, OR full publish to Azure and the span appears on the front page, but not the styling. The css file for some reason does not get updated. FF, IE, Chrome and Safari all confirm it. However, after a seemingly arbitrary time, the css file get updated.
Even when I remote into the Azure VM and restart the app, the styling is unchanged. The app is running on one instance, one role. No Azure Caching is setup. Adding a querystring param to the css file link does not help. Seems like a caching issue but no clue how to resolve.
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"We are using Cloudflare which has a default set up to cache all CSS and JS files. It purges the cache every 4 hours which resulted in the arbitrary updates. So, even though I was adding a new query string to the end of the css file, Cloudflare still cached the old one"
Just a quick note that you should go to CloudFlare Development Mode when making changes to the static content files on your site. You can get to Development Mode to bypass the cache by going to: settings->Development Mode. You also have the option of purging your cache as an additional option, which we would only recommend if you really want to purge everything.
Looks like it's cached by your browser. Can you please try navigate to your site and press Ctrl+F5.
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This issue is resolved.
We are using Cloudflare which has a default set up to cache all CSS and JS files. It purges the cache every 4 hours which resulted in the arbitrary updates. So, even though I was adding a new query string to the end of the css file, Cloudflare still cached the old one.
I have dealt with this and I will tell you that from my experience in Chrome you can set a setting that disables the cache in the developer tools, however, I've noticed that unless you have the dev tools window open when you hit Ctrl+F5 it doesn't reload the cache. In IE there is a global setting in the dev tools that will make it redownload everything every time. In Firefox there is also a setting in the dev tools that will require it to download and not use the cache.
One way that you can test this, and how I test this, is by running Fiddler and watching if it does a full download of all your files or if it's caching.
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