Adding license key renders website error 502

  • Resolved fwinter1

    (@fwinter1)


    10 months ago

    After I deactivated the WordFence plugin I activated it again and it asked me for a licence key (I use the free version). It didn’t occur to me that I had the previous key in my emails from some month ago. So, I registered again and manually inserted my email address and key. *plop* the whole site is now unreachable displaying ‘bad gateway’ error 502. I can’t view the site, not can I log in to the admin section (wp-login.php).

    I saw in the document root new files created “.user.ini” with size of 1 byte and “.htaccess” with zero size.

    -rw-r–r– 1 http http 0 Jan 26 11:43 .htaccess
    -rw-r–r– 1 http http 1 Jan 26 11:43 .user.ini

    I removed those as I believe I didn’t have them back when everything was working fine. Also the NGINX web server doesn’t work with .htaccess as far as I know.

    How can I get the site back into a working state? I have phpMyAdmin and I am root on the system.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter fwinter1

    (@fwinter1)

    I solved it with phpMyAdmin and removed the value from the DB field ‘active plugins’. Then I could access the site again (and activate each plugin manually)

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