BWS refuses to activate

  • I had quite an epic tussle on my site over the weekend. I had BWS installed, and was tweaking some of its options, when it went haywire and began hitting the server very hard (no idea why) and shut down my site (which is on a shared host which strictly limits how much CPU I can use).

    After 36 hours hours of downtime, I finally found that it was BWS causing it (by renaming BWS in the FTP, that effectively disabled it, and then the site returned to normal). So I deleted BWS, got the site back up and running, and I’m mostly back to normal.

    I’d like to try re-installing BWS, but now it doesn’t work. I can go into my WP backend, can install the plug-in, but when I click Activate, it just hangs there and never activates. (I’ve waited several minutes.) I tried going into the FTP, deleting the BWS folder, and re-installing it. Still no go. So this plug-in is now dead…

    Any ideas why?

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  • I’d like to try re-installing BWS, but now it doesn’t work. I can go into my WP backend, can install the plug-in, but when I click Activate, it just hangs there and never activates. (I’ve waited several minutes.)

    I have the same problem, reported already a week ago (no response). In my case BWS caused a lot of problems, and I needed to disable it through PhpMyAdmin. Then I updated to the latest version (3.5.6) in the hope this would help, prior to trying to reactivate it.

    However, now I cannot activate it since WordPress loads multiple minutes after clicking on ‘activate’, and then gives a webpage ‘connection time out’ error message.

    Removing all plugin files and reinstalling it did not help.

    Thread Starter ddas

    (@ddas)

    That’s very interesting, hkl. My site, which is currently without BWS, is now pretty lethargic. I can see by checking my resource usage that it’s still got very high CPU usage. I’m getting lots of timeouts, or partial pages. I have no idea why. I’m trying to get to the bottom of it now.

    Anyone got an idea how to solve this problem?

    I tried reversing back to previous versions of BWS, when there were no problems, but reactivation of those also failed.

    chris-slick

    (@chris-slick)

    I have been experiencing the same problem and I am yet to receive a response as well.

    I can’t recall exactly what caused the problem, but I remember I was having issues with my WordPress SEO Yoast plugin so I was removing unnecessary duplicated coding from the htaccess file. Since then it just refuses to activate.

    Eagerly awaiting any help on this topic….

    hki429

    (@hki429)

    After I’ve removed all BWS lines in the .htaccess file and manually deleted every bwps_ table in the database, I succeeded in reactivating the plugin again.

    For now, it works again, though I’m not sure how much this is a real fix – the previous time I could not reactivate the plugin after a BWS update, so I’ll have to see if it remains active with the next update.

    Good luck guys!

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