mysterious snuffleupagus errors that return after fix, plugin disabling SSL?
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Hello and thanks in advance for anything you might know.
I could swear this all started after updating PHP both times it started.
Is something I’m using not compatible with something else (list beow)To be clear up fornt:
I’m not asking for a spot fix… I’m wondering if you know what might be causing this in the first place… hints at what I’m repeatedly doing wrong to require fixes.
— Do you know of any known issues between my themes and plugins?
(themes/plugins list below, but all common combos, I thought)The problem seems to lie in something (what??) that is:
“…disabling SSL VerifyHost through curl_setopts() in the PHP code”
Causing these errors (also below),
and at least one code fix has been suggested in my theme’s “functions.php” file, namely.Are there any known issues between:
Theme: usually Ocean WP
Design plugin: Elementor free (no supplementals)
Security Plugins: Usually Wordfence free and Loginizer free
Caching Plugin: WP Super Cache then uninstall and install Comet Cache on some sites… other site none, just free CloudFlare (minus the wordfence)… I think I had same issue on a WP Fastest Cache site… but note, after installing WP Super Cache I started getting an error I’ve now lost, about a file not found by wordpress involved with garbage cleanup. That error disappeared after WP Super Cache uninstall.
SEO Plugin: Yoast on some sitesError:
This phenomenon below is plague-ing all of my sites (because they’re all similar).
It can be a version of the error crashing the front page for all, or it can get resolved but then I’m hit with a similar error upon wp-admin login or anywhere in Dashboard etc….It starts out crashing accessing the main page as a visitor at all, at that point the error is:
Fatal error: [snuffleupagus][disabled_function] Aborted execution on call of the function ‘curl_setopt’, because its argument ‘$option’ content (81) matched the rule ‘Please don’t turn CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST off.’ in?/home/wetfleec/public_html/wp-includes/Requests/Transport/cURL.php?on line?150
(sometimes line 152 on other sites)
…then, typically, some generous tech support at my shared hosting goes in, fixes some line of code (I don’t think they’ve told me that first one), then I get the error trying log into admin as soon as I’ve typed my un & pw into wp-admin:
Fatal error: [snuffleupagus][disabled_function] Aborted execution on call of the function ‘curl_setopt’, because its argument ‘$option’ content (81) matched the rule ‘Please don’t turn CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST off.’ in /home/maindomain/public_html/wp-includes/Requests/Transport/cURL.php on line 159
then this time I got advice where to put some code:
You’ll need to ensure your site is not disabling SSL VerifyHost through curl_setopts() in your PHP code.
On WordPress, you can try to patch this via your theme’s functions.php by adding the following line:
add_filter( ‘https_local_ssl_verify’, ‘__return_true’ );I had to go to a meeting and they generously did this while I was gone and, only for the websites I mentioned to them, it worked, except now one site says “snuffleupagus” at the top (not a wordpress design thing but code qlitch) with a bunch of extra space in the header, also not put there or easily fixed with normal wordpress use because it’s not supposed to be there..
I think I’ll just uninstall and reinstall some sites and try to flush out what is the problem plugin combo etc. but it’s hard because the error can decide not to happen right away but overnight or after hours! Some sites I’m far more invested in….It’s just a terrible mess for me.
Questions:
*Is there some obvious no-no I’m committing by using that theme and those plugins? What plugin or event is disabling “SSL VerifyHost through curl_setopts()”* If Ocean WP theme is sinking/glitchy lately, is there a similar blank template theme friendly with Elementor and e-commerce plugins like Ocean WP, working better?
* Is it Ocean WP having had WP Super Cache installed, messing it up even after install?
Thank you for your time.
Again It’s more about — what do I need to stop doing in the first place than how to fix it.
Thanks!
Jeff
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thank you Corrina Russo
you’re right (twice) — I’ll try changing php versions to see if that at least allows me to log in again, (thank goodness I can do that without logging into WordPress, since I can’t, with most sites right now) otherwise I have to start trying to disable possibly responsible plugins without being logged in and I’m not feeling qualified for that. I have access to cpanel and FTP, but… I don’t know what will happen if I try deleting plugins without un-installing them (?) — when trying to fix the site enough to even log in wp-admin.
Thanks for recommending PHP versions because I didn’t know how serious running deprecated older versions was (can’t be worse than broken..) — that gives me more options than just 8 if that doesn’t work (but I’ll need to solve things eventually?)
sorry, yes, I meant to mention that fix — the same line of code you provided was suggested and when they did it, it helped with Ocean WP but not with twentyseventeen it seems.. at least not when I tried it at the end.
And in wp-contains/pluggables.php they put a couple “//” at the front of line containing
header( “X-Redirect-By: $x_redirect_by” )
and I tried that too but for me it didn’t help either (again, it’s something they said they did to help with a couple of the Ocean WP sites)They seem to have fixed one site by switching to alt-php 7.4
thanks for your help
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