Impossible to install other plugin

Hi, after you install AIOWPS do you see any messages displayed? Do you see error messages anywhere when you try to install another plugin?

What kind of server are you running? How much memory do you have allocated to your WordPress website?

If you are still having issues – have you tried manually deactivating the aiowps plugin using FTP? (ie, Log into your server via FTP and rename this plugin’s folder temporarily)

Once you’ve done the above also check your .htaccess file and remove any code from this plugin – simply delete the section between and including the following tags:
# BEGIN All In One WP Security
# END All In One WP Security

No, any message display.
I sse this plugin for a long time and I’ve never had any problems. Yesterday I tried to install it on three new sites and I had the same problem on all three. It was not simply turn it off, I had to uninstall it completely. I tried to reinstall it again, run the settings and I tried again to install a new plugin (yoast and other). The system requires me to always enter ftp data , but then does not accept them. Just I do not understand.
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Hi,
I think your issue is not related to this plugin at all because the behaviour you are seeing is something which is caused by your server setup.
See these links for people who had similar issues:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-install-asks-for-ftp-details
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/wp-asking-for-my-ftp-credentials-to-install-plugins

Hi pandorina,

Are all three websites hosted on the same webhost? Are your other websites hosted at the same webhost as well?

If you get asked for FTP credentials only after you install AIOWPSF plugin (but not before), then some of the changes done by the plugin to file system must have corrupted it in a way that WordPress thinks that it cannot write new files or update existing ones as a webserver user and asks for FTP credentials instead.

The only one feature that could result in such corruption is change of file permissions under Filesystem Security > File Permissions. But as far as I know, the file permission changes are not reverted on plugin uninstall, so it’s unlikely that this feature caused your issues. More likely your webhost setup is root of this issue, as @wpsolutions suggested above.

Anyway, if you can install plugins without being asked for FTP credentials and you would still like to use AIOWPSF, forcing WordPress to directly write files should help. Try to add this snippet to your wp_config.php:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

Cheers,
?eslav

Hi Ceslav, thank you for your support. I added the snippet in wp-config. Now doesn’t appear the ftp request but this message:

Unzipping the package …

Unable to create directory.

P.S The three website not hosted in the same webhost. Now I’m trying to read the links of the plugin author.

Hi pandorina,

Unable to create directory.

This indicates file permissions issue. Unfortunately, without more information about your webhost setup (is it shared/dedicated webhosting, how PHP is run etc.), it’s hard to give you a 100% advice. There’s a long article about file permissions for WordPress, you might want to check it out. Your webhoster should be able to let you know what is the correct file permissions scheme for WordPress in your case.

If you don’t want to wait for reply from your webhoster, you could try to set file permissions of wp-content directory to 775 – you might want to apply the change to subdirectories as well, at least the immediate ones (like plugins and themes). You can use your FTP client for that (I can recommend FileZilla, it can change file permissions only for directories or files and apply changes recursively).

Cheers,
?eslav

Nothing… ??
I set the permissions to 775, but nothing.
This is absurd! I’m using three different hosting, the same as I always used so far and that they have never given me problems with AIOWPS. Suddenl , I try to install the plugin on a new site and two old sites (on THREE different hosting ) and the problems begin. If I remove AIOWPS I could install other plugins, if I leave it, stops me any installation. But it makes no sense! How can is a hosting problem, when I am using three different hosting? Really, I do not understand ….

I still believe it’s a permission problem, given the errors you get. Anyway, to investigate it, we need more information about your setup.

Do you have any other plugin installed on all 3 websites? Any other security plugin perhaps?

Could you try to set directory permissions to 775 for your whole WordPress folder (including the root folder)? Please, set the permissions recursively, ie. for subdirectories as well, and check if you can install plugins then.

Can you upload media files?

pandorina,

1) Which firewall features do you have active in the AIOWPS?
If you have any firewall rules active, have you tried disabling all of the firewall rules and checking if the problem goes away?

2) IF the above has no effect, can you also try clicking the “Disable All Security Features” in the AIOWPS Settings menu. What happens when you do that?

If the problem goes away when doing either 1 or 2 you should then start reactivating each feature until you find the one causing your issue.