Action scheduler “past due” with an htaccess file

Hi there @houba_houbi,

We’re checking in with our development team about this, and I’ll get back to you once I have more information.

Also, for further clarification, can you provide more information on what the .htaccess file is doing? Also, does the issue go away if you disable the .htaccess file? If you can let us know, that should help.

Thanks!

Hello

Thanks. I think it’s because I have a rule for a pass protection for my website. I use that for development websites. And I don’t have the problem on production websites so without a htpass protection. So I think that’s the problem.

Hi @houba_houbi

Thank you for keeping us posted.

I’ll be hopping in while David is out today.

Based on your response, our developers suggested the following:

Since you are using basic HTTP auth WP-Cron is not working. This is expected behaviour for WP-Cron and isn’t directly related to WP Mail SMTP. This plugin should help resolve this issue:?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-cron-http-auth/?

Hello

Thanks I will test with this plugin and see if I have no notices in the future.

To well understand, how does wpcron work: automatically at a given frequency (which one?) or do we have to “visit” the site manually?

Hi @houba_houbi

Thank for getting back to us.

Taking reference from the WordPress Developer Resources:

“WP-Cron works by checking, on every page load, a list of scheduled tasks to see what needs to be run. Any tasks due to run will be called during that page load.”