#wordpress 2019-02-13

2019-02-13 UTC
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[tantek] huh, is "Disable Rest API" a WordPress plugin that we should warn about or add to Troubleshooting? https://twitter.com/_/status/1095510906350522368
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@StormlightTech @microbitch2017 It's called simply Disable Rest API. You don't want it installed. Plays freaking havoc with webmention. (twitter.com/_/status/1095510906350522368)
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[pfefferle] Tantek yes, absolutely
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sknebel I wonder if the plugins can test/detect this?
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sknebel we've seen this with "security suites" before too
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[pfefferle] We can implement a check for a list of plugins, sure.
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[pfefferle] The same with indieauth and micropub
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sknebel I thought along the lines of "try to use the api from the plugin, see if it suceeds", but a plugin list could also be a start
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[pfefferle] We can also try to access the api endpoint
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[pfefferle] But this is more expensive if we do that every time we load the admin settings
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[pfefferle] Or perhaps a troubleshoot button that runs some tests
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aaronpk any idea why a wordpress site would return 404 on /wp-admin/plugins.php?
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aaronpk and only sometimes
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[pfefferle] A WordPress 404 or a Webserver 404?
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aaronpk wordpress
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[pfefferle] Oh...
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[pfefferle] Some weird rewrite rules, that does not handle physical files properly?
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aaronpk sometimes reloading it will work
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aaronpk which makes no sense to me
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[pfefferle] Bad caching that do not exclude the admin?
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aaronpk if i could visit that page i could see if a caching plugin is installed 😂
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[pfefferle] 😂
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[pfefferle] You can move the plugins folder, to check if it is a plugin fault?
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[pfefferle] Or do you have no access to the filesystem?
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aaronpk i do, but i can't mess with it live
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[pfefferle] Can you post a list of the folders?
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aaronpk i'm gonna try to download everything locally to mess with it
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[pfefferle] It sounds like a plugin issue
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[pfefferle] WordPress only returns a 404 in the frontend
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aaronpk wp-supercache is installed. could that cause it somehow?
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aaronpk ok looking at the error logs now
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aaronpk "Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server"
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[asuh] aaronpk what version of php is on the server?
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aaronpk 5.6
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aaronpk or wait
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aaronpk it's dreamhost, so it has all of them, not sure which one this is using
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[asuh] I've had similar problems with v7.x on dreamhost
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aaronpk i'm gonna clone this whole thing to a VM and try it out locally to see if i can track this down
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