w3tc htaccess and bullet proof

  • Resolved emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi, I installed bullet proof security on my website, but it seems to have an issue with w3tc. I tried to resolve it but cannot seem to, can you please let me know what I’m doing wrong.

    I currently have this message…
    BPS Alert! Your site does not appear to be protected by BulletProof Security
    Go to the Security Modes page and click the Create secure.htaccess File AutoMagic button and Activate Root Folder BulletProof Mode.
    If your site is in Maintenance Mode then your site is protected by BPS and this Alert will remain to remind you to put your site back in BulletProof Mode again.
    If your site is in Default Mode then it is NOT protected by BulletProof Security. Check the BPS Security Status page to view your BPS Security Status information.

    So then I go to the BPS Security Status Page and see this error….
    The htaccess file that is activated in your root folder is:
    BULLETPROOF .49.8 >>>>>>> SECURE .HTACCESS

    ERROR: Either a BPS htaccess file was NOT found in your root folder or you have not activated BulletProof Mode for your Root folder yet, Default Mode is activated, Maintenance Mode is activated or the version of the BPS Pro htaccess file that you are using is not the most current version or the BPS QUERY STRING EXPLOITS code does not exist in your root htaccess file. Please view the Read Me Help button above.

    wp-config.php is NOT htaccess protected by BPS

    √ Deny All protection activated for BPS Master /htaccess folder
    √ Deny All protection activated for /wp-content/bps-backup folder

    The htaccess file that is activated in your wp-admin folder is:
    BULLETPROOF .49.8 WP-ADMIN SECURE .HTACCESS

    So then I go to … Security Modes… and I select…
    Activate Website Root Folder .htaccess Security Mode and I select…
    BulletProof Mode and I activate

    Then I select….
    Activate Website wp-admin Folder .htaccess Security Mode… and I select …. BulletProof Mode and I activate

    Then I get this error….
    W3 Total Cache is activated, but W3TC .htaccess code was NOT found in your root .htaccess file.
    W3TC needs to be redeployed by clicking either the auto-install or deploy buttons. If your root .htaccess file is locked then you need to unlock it to allow W3TC to write its htaccess code to your root htaccess file. Click to Redeploy W3TC.BPS Lock and Unlock buttons are on the htaccess File Editor page.

    So then I go to the htaccess fie editor and I select unlock htaccess file.

    Then I do to Redeploy W3TC and I Save my settings.

    And then things look fine for a moment… I get this…

    The htaccess file that is activated in your root folder is:
    BULLETPROOF .49.8 >>>>>>> SECURE .HTACCESS

    √ wp-config.php is htaccess protected by BPS
    √ php.ini and php5.ini are htaccess protected by BPS

    √ Deny All protection activated for BPS Master /htaccess folder
    √ Deny All protection activated for /wp-content/bps-backup folder

    The htaccess file that is activated in your wp-admin folder is:
    BULLETPROOF .49.8 WP-ADMIN SECURE .HTACCESS

    But then, it starts all over again with the first error again? Will this always be like this where I have to keep resetting it? Is it because I logged out and back in? Or is it because I logged in from a different computer?
    How can this be fixed so I don’t get anymore error messages?

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  • Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    ok, so here’s what i did for the moment. please let me know if this is ok for now… I just put

    .hold on the end of the .htaccess files and on the end of the BPS folder. Is that ok for now til I can see if w3tc is the one causing the issue?

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    We have used W3TC in the past and it worked well as long as we only used the Browser Cache feature/setting. We had major issues with Page Cache and Minify on our sites so we did not use those W3TC features. We are doing a lot of things on our websites that probably most other folks are not doing so that may be why we had issues with Page Cache and Minify.

    At this point we are not using any caching plugins and are only using this caching code that we created in the link below. I think W3TC and WPSC are excellent caching plugins, but for our particular websites we cannot use either of these caching plugins due to what we are doing on our websites and instead can only use the cache code that we created in the link below.

    https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/htaccess-caching-code-speed-boost-cache-code/

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    You can just delete the BPS plugin (follow the removal steps posted above) for now since removal and installation are simple and quick. No point in making things more complicated than they need to be.

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    the problem is that I can’t get into the dashboard to delete it anymore, the error won’t leave now.

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    Use FTP or your web host control panel and delete the .htaccess file in your website root folder and the .htaccess file in the wp-admin folder. If you have already done that and you still cannot get into your Dashboard then try manually removing/deleting the W3TC plugin folders. You will find W3TC folders under your /plugins folder and in the root of your /wp-content folder. Rename or delete all of the W3TC folders.

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    I just tried to do it that way, but I can’t… please tell me how to remove it via ftp. please.

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    Are you saying you do not know how to use FTP? You can use your Web Host Conrtol instead to delete folder and files. Log into your web host control panel and use the File Manager tool (or whatever it is called on your particular Host) and delete folders and files.

    I found this post / tutorial on removing W3TC manually.

    https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/36504/wordpress-manual-uninstall-of-w3-total-cache/

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    I know how to use ftp… ok, I took them both off for now via ftp (w3tc has a lot of files)

    You’ve been so helpful and I really appreciate it.

    My host helped me to get the errors off as well so I could get some of it off through wp-admin.

    I imagine BPS should work now that w3tc is off. I think I will wait a day and get some back ups before trying anything else.

    If I have time before the site launch I will try again. But for now I need to get some back ups just in case there are any other problems (I had just added the dimensions of 700+ products and re-did the menus) so I don’t want to make nay more changes until I get a couple back up.s

    Once again, thank you so much!!!

    I really appreciate your quick replies and all your help.

    I hope I can get BPS to work ok.

    I see w3tc is having the problem with its latest update…

    Also, thank you for sending the link for me to remove it manually, that made a difference so at least I knew what files to remove and get it out of the wp-config.

    Thank you again!

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    Resolving. We still receive email notifications on resolved forum threads so if you need to post additional info in this thread regarding this issue then post that info. Thanks.

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    Hi, ok, thank you, I appreciate that cause I’d really like to use the plugin. Let me know, thanks again!

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    I think I am missing something here? I assumed you were going to reinstall BPS at a later time. Were you waiting for something from us? I assume the problem was actually caused by W3TC and had nothing to do with BPS correct?

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    Oh, I thought you said “resolving” as in you found the conflict and it is in the process of being resolved. I see now that you mean you are resolving this thread.

    Thank you!

    Plugin Author AITpro

    (@aitpro)

    In order to keep track of Threads and not have old “pending” or other types of Threads get pushed out of site/to the next WP forum page we resolve the Threads. This is just so we can stay sane on our end. We still receive emails even if a thread has been resolved so it is just a way to make things more easily manageable for us. ??

    Thread Starter emexonline777

    (@emexonline777)

    Yes, got it, I understand, thanks so much! Your support is awesome!

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