WordPress 3.8.1 visual editor problem

  • I have read these topics about the same problem

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/visual-editor-not-working-after-381-update?replies=8
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/visual-editor-missing-in-381?replies=9
    and many more from google search results

    but those topics did not really help me solve the problem. as the last resort I tried to do a fresh install on both my server and my local pc. the server still produce the problem, yet the local installation works smoothly. feel so desperated I gave up and contact my webhost admin to ask about it. he said, there are lots of problem like that on their support ticket, most of them caused by security plugin (such as bullet-proof). he then tell me to remove said plugin (if exist) and revert htaccess to the default/basic WP one

    finally, after reverting htaccess, the visual editor came back.
    now my question is

    I did not use any said security plugin. I did however have some RedirectMatch rules and it seems causing the visual editor gone.
    Why did the RedirectMatch interfere with visual editor? I have use it for such a long time side by side with wordpress

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  • That can’t be answered without knowing what redirects you had set up.

    The only thing that I could offer is a “good guess” that there was some rule that was conflicting with one of more of the files that the editor relies upon. Just going by the name of RedirectMatch it sounds like there’s some heavy-duty regex matching going on in that, and that can be very hard ot get right. If it works after removing the RedirectMatch plugin, then that’s where you’d need to start to find out which rule is the one that’s causing the problem.

    Thread Starter SuyaLynx

    (@suyalynx)

    The regex set for my RedirectMatch are

    ^/admin$
^/@$
^/\+$
^/da$
^/fdl$

    Nothing there stands out, but that doesn’t mean that that’s not the problem.

    Can I ask why you have the redirect plugin there in the first place?

    Thread Starter SuyaLynx

    (@suyalynx)

    the admin regex, redirect to wp-login.php
    the others redirect to my social account and some long bookmark

    OK. Well, there’s not much that I can do to help about that then if you need those. It’s very hard to say what the problem is because it’s hard to say which files have been blocked or redirected from those entries, so all that I can suggest is trying to remove them all one-by-one and see if that helps. That way you’d know the one/ones that are causing the issue and you might be able to do something to fix it.

    Thread Starter SuyaLynx

    (@suyalynx)

    Well I can just make a folder then create a new .htaccess with RedirectMatch there.

    Still curious about the problem though. I’ll keep the topic stay at ‘not resolved’ just in case someone come with new idea

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