Feedback: wouldn't run when cloudflare/https active

  • Hi, A little feedback for a problem that took me an hour to work through. Hopefully this will save someone else some time.

    tl;dr
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    If nothing seems to be happening, turn off cloudflare (connect direct) and make sure you don’t have a https connection when using this plugin

    Details
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    Running search/replace resulted in a grey bar and no activity. I couldn’t see activity on the server (eg: i expected a long running query and mysqld being busy, or activity from php).

    In order to fault find, I disabled cloudflare (DNS pass through, as oppossed to via their cloud) and set it to development mode. This still didn’t work, though I did notice; I was still getting the https site (this only works via cloudflare) and the server logs showed my connections as still via cloudflare.

    Then, I connected my computer directly to my wordpress by editing /etc/hosts to override any DNS config and used a new browser (i think the cloudflare https works by telling the browser to keep all future connections to the domain via https). Having done this, everything worked perfectly..

    So, there’s something odd about this plugin + https and/or cloudflare, but I can’t tell any more than that.

    System data in case its useful:
    (nb: I reduced max page size from default as part of my fault finding, probably the default was fine).

    ### Begin System Info ###

    — WordPress Configuration

    Site URL: —-
    Home URL: —-
    Multisite: No
    Version: 4.3.1
    Language: en_GB
    Table Prefix: Length: 3
    WP_DEBUG: Disabled
    Memory Limit: 40M

    — Better Search Replace Configuration

    Plugin Version: 1.2.6
    Max Page Size: 10000

    — Server Configuration

    Operating System: Linux
    PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13
    MySQL Version: 5.5.44
    Server Software: nginx/1.8.0

    — PHP Configuration

    Safe Mode: Disabled
    Memory Limit: 256M
    Post Max Size: 20M
    Upload Max Filesize: 25M
    Time Limit: 30
    Max Input Vars: 1000
    Display Errors: N/A

    — WordPress Active Plugins

    About.me Widget: 1.1.6
    Better Search Replace: 1.2.6
    CloudFlare: 1.3.19
    Google Analytics by Yoast: 5.4.6
    Wordfence Security: 6.0.20
    WordPress Importer: 0.6.1
    WP Mail From II: 1.1

    — WordPress Inactive Plugins

    Akismet: 3.1.5
    Hello Dolly: 1.6

    ### End System Info ###

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  • Plugin Contributor Matt Shaw

    (@mattshaw)

    Hi,

    Thanks for reporting this. The issue definitely isn’t with HTTPS, as it’s been tested with that a bunch. I will try to test with Cloudflare and see if that could be interfering somehow.

    Thread Starter steveroot

    (@steveroot)

    If you can’t recreate it, feel free to ask me to try again and let me know where any log/debug output will be.

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