Instagram widget connection error

Hi there,

While your site is publicly accessible, we cannot access your site’s XML-RPC file:

https://vgfreak.com/xmlrpc.php

This file is used by Jetpack and other plugins and apps to connect to your site. It must return the following message:

XML-RPC?server accepts POST requests only.

You can see a working example here:

https://jetpack.com/xmlrpc.php

Since your site returns a 404?error?for this page, I would recommend that you check the following:

1) Can you see the /xmlrpc.php file at the root of your WordPress installation when accessing your site via FTP? If you don’t, then please try re-installing WordPress. You can do this by going to the Dashboard -> Upgrades page, then click the “Reinstall WordPress” button.

2) Do you use any security plugins that may block access to this file? If so, could you try to disable them? You might also want to check your site’s .htaccess file for any rules that might be blocking access to the?xmlrpc.php file.

3) Does your hosting provider block access to this file? If you don’t find any plugin that may block access to the file on your site, I would recommend that you get in touch with your host.

Once we are able to access your site’s?xmlrpc.php file, you should be able to connect Jetpack to?https://wordpress.com.

Let me know how it goes!

Thank you for the reply!
The file DOES exists here:
https://www.vgfreak.com/wp/xmlrpc.php
(under the wordpress installation folder “wp”.

For some reason it cannot be accessed in the regular way.
Also, my hosting provider offers PHP version (up-to) 7.2 Could that be the problem?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by avifb.

OK, I edited the .htaccess file and now https://vgfreak.com/xmlrpc.php is available.
However, I still get “Invalid/missing request nonce.” when trying to connect to Instagram.

Update: editing the .htaccess file broke my site (the was 404 when trying to access any post).
I reinstated the old one…

• This reply was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by avifb.

Can you check your URL settings in Settings > General?

If your WordPress installation is in the /wp/ folder, then the WordPress URL should be https://vgfreak.com/wp

Can you confirm if that’s set correctly?

Yes it is:
https://vgfreak.com/wp

Hi, we updated a setting on our end and your Jetpack connection now looks good.

Can you try the Instagram widget again?

Sorry to inform that I still get the “Invalid/missing request nonce.” error when trying to connect to instagram.

There still seems to be a Jetpack connection issue on your site.

I would suggest contacting your host and explaining that we are unable to access your blog via cURL, which is needed in order to use Jetpack on your site.

You can pass this information onto them:

1. We checked for access to xmlrpc.php via browser:

https://vgfreak.com/wp/xmlrpc.php

That test returned “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” which is a valid result.

2. We checked via cURL by running the following command from the terminal:

curl -A "Jetpack by WordPress.com" -is -H 'Content-Type: text/xml' --data '<?xml version="1.0"?><methodCall><methodName>demo.sayHello</methodName><params></params></methodCall>' 'https://vgfreak.com/wp/xmlrpc.php' && echo

The cURL test returned a 404 error response.

Please provide this information above to your host so they can correct the server settings and allow cURL access.