Woocomerce downloads stopped working after upgrading to 4.9.0

  • Upgrading from 4.6.13 to either 4.8 or 4.9 stops woocommerce digital products from working. Going back to 4.6.13 solves the issue, so it’s clearly related to the upgrade.

    Here’s what happens:

    The order goes through and the client gets the download links. The links look correct but instead of getting the file, the client is redirected to the uploads directory and gets the 403 error.

    Unchecking everything under System / WordPress tweaks didn’t help.

    Changing the download methods in Woocommerce didn’t help.

    To reiterate, 4.6.13 works fine with the same WP / security settings.

    Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-wp-security/

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  • @mikblog
    If you have the HackRepair.com blacklist setting enabled in the Banned Users section of the iTSec plugin Settings page try and disable it.

    Then see whether that makes any difference.

    dwinden

    Thread Starter mikblog

    (@mikblog)

    Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn’t make any difference.

    It only works if I go back to 4.6.13 or disable the plugin. Were there any major changes moving from 4.6.13 to 4.8?

    Yes, quite a lot has changed since 4.6.13.
    Check out the Changelog for an overview of the changes.

    The order goes through and the client gets the download links. The links look correct …

    Can you give us an example of such a download link ?

    dwinden

    Thread Starter mikblog

    (@mikblog)

    Sure. it’s a regular Woocommerce link for downloadable products. It looks like this:

    https://www.SHOPDOMAIN.com/?download_file=2920&order=wc_order_55c410612307c&email=CLIENTEMAIL&key=eac077baffa92c3d90be35df4b15612e

    Normally, that should trigger a download of the purchased file. With version above 4.6.13 it simply goes to the directory where the file sits and gets the 403 error, since the directory isn’t accessible directly.

    The download method in Woocommerce is X-Accel-Redirect/X-Sendfile

    Thank you

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    Thread Starter mikblog

    (@mikblog)

    The download issue is consistent across several sites I run. Anyone’s got the Woocommerce downloads working with 4.9?

    Thread Starter mikblog

    (@mikblog)

    Anyone?

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