Update broke my site

Same here… Update has broken my site… Man.. I am losing my faith in WP fast! I’m gettin sick of fixing errors caused by updates.

Mine too. Admittedly I am on a windows server which I know everyone hates but there is no information that says the update doesn’t work on Windows server.

I’m trying to get an error log as I post this so will update when I have more info.

@mudplugger I’m also on a Windows Server, so please keep us updated with your findings. Thanks.

site: https://www.thesolomama.com

Ok, so I’ve managed to get the following error message from my hosting providers:

PHP Warning: is_readable(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\domain.com\dev/wp-content/plugins/C:\Inetpub\vhosts\domain.com\dev\wp-content\plugins\better-wp-security//lang/it-l10n-better-wp-security-en_US.mo) is not within the allowed path(s): (C:/Inetpub/vhosts/domain.com\;C:\Windows\Temp\) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\domain.com\dev\wp-includes\l10n.php on line 457

I’ll admit to not being a php developer so feel free to tell me I’m spouting rubbish but isn’t the path:

(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\domain.com\dev/wp-content/plugins/C:\Inetpub\vhosts\domain.com\dev\wp-content\plugins\better-wp-security//lang/it-l10n-better-wp-security-en_US.mo)

constructed wrong?

Ditto.
enabled on my website and it worked at first
Did the item where it changes my Admin account name and my Admin ID from 1… now it just says ‘Error’ when I try to load my page
I renamed the plugin in WP-Content/plugins to ‘BROKE’ in front of it and now it lets me into my site, but reinstalling the plugin broke it again.

I also enabled the hide backend feature and changed the name of it.

Well I have now deleted better wp security and am now using a different security plugin.. Problem solved. Shame.. I was quite happy using bwp.. Their loss…

Forgot to say.. Windows server here too.

If you want make it easy for yourself and just install another security plugin. I recommend. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

Simples..

I think you might even find this slight ‘blip’ a blessing in the end. ??

Good luck all.

Hey.. That’s nice site you got there solomama.

This is the first time I’ve used Better WP Security and after reverting back to 3.6.6 as 4.0.2 doesn’t work I thought I would check to see what happens when Away mode is activated for the time period 10pm to 6am.

It seems absolutely nothing. Hasn’t stopped me logging into my backend at all.

That coupled with no acknowledgement of a lot of the posts on this forum today by the developer, it looks like their chances of making money on the pro upgrade are disappearing fast.

Oh well, off to the competition then.

@bzerka thank you for the positive comment about my website.

If you don’t mind my asking, which plug-in did you decide to use instead? It seems most of us here are on the Windows Server, I wonder if that has anything to do with it. A follow up from the developer would be helpful.

Since I removed the BWP Security plug-in on yesterday I’ve already began to receive spam in my inbox. I’m looking to find an alternative pretty quickly. Thanks.

It’s even better!

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/all-in-one-wp-security-and-firewall/

For spam I use Akismet

https://akismet.com/

I’ve deleted iTheme and am installing all-in-one also! This entire experience was so ridiculous.

You would think that the developer of iThemes Security would post some thing on their support site but to no avail. Sad, what a great plugin “Better Word Press Security” was (RIP)