concertkatie

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I am having the same problem on 2 of my sites – both stopped publishing July 3. Where is the remote requests? In General Settings it is already enabled.

My hosting escalated the issue to an administrator who corrected whatever the problem was and I was able to do the one-click upgrade to 5.2.2. Unfortunately I don’t know what it was that was causing the FastCGI error, but it seemed to be something on the hosting side.

It looks like it is PHP 5.6.40 which should be good since the other blog on my same hosting plan is working with the 5.2.2 upgrade.

Thanks! I have upgraded to PHP 5.6 for the server but was just “forcing” the 5.3 through .htaccess for this blog. I’ll give the 5.2.2 files a try tonight and see what happens.

Should I replace with the WordPress 5.2.2 files?

I brought this to my host’s attention and they said the ModSecurity firewall was already disabled for the blog and also gave me code to add to the .htaccess file. “SecRuleRemoveByID 330792” Adding this to the .htacess and removing the force to “SetEnv PHP_Version 53” I am still getting the FastCGI error.

Most of the errors from the time when I was getting the error are the same:
mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server

This one also appears to be from my IP but not around the time I was trying things out:
ModSecurity: Warning. Match of "eq 0" against "MULTIPART_UNMATCHED_BOUNDARY" required. [file "/services/mod_security-rules/00_asl_zz_strict.conf"] [line "36"] [id "330792"] [rev "2"] [msg "Multipart parser detected a possible unmatched boundary. This may be an impedence mismatch attack, a broken application or a broken connection. This is not a false positive. Check your application or client for errors."] [severity "NOTICE"] [tag "no_ar"] [hostname "blog.hansonstage.com"] [uri "/wp-admin/update.php"]

And then a few from not my IP
ModSecurity: Access denied with code 412 (phase 2). Pattern match "MJ12bot" at REQUEST_HEADERS:User-Agent. [file "/services/mod_security-rules/20_asl_useragents.conf"] [line "368"] [id "333515"] [rev "4"] [msg "Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: MJ12 Distributed bot detected (Disable this rule if you want to allow this bot)"] [severity "WARNING"] [tag "no_ar"] [hostname "blog.hansonstage.com"] [uri "/2014/05/09/what-your-favorite-boy-bandmember-says-about-you/"]

ModSecurity: Access denied with code 412 (phase 2). Pattern match "xmlrpc.php" at REQUEST_URI. [file "/services/config/apache.conf.d/mod_security_custom.conf"] [line "1"] [id "1234123588"] [msg "xmlrpc"] [hostname "blog.hansonstage.com"] [uri "/xmlrpc.php"]

ModSecurity: Access denied with code 412 (phase 2). Pattern match "Datanyze" at REQUEST_HEADERS:user-agent. [file "/services/mod_security-rules/20_asl_useragents.conf"] [line "68"] [id "337749"] [rev "2"] [msg "Atomicorp.com WAF Rules: Datanyze bot blocked"] [severity "ERROR"] [hostname "blog.hansonstage.com"] [uri "/"]

ModSecurity: Access denied with code 412 (phase 2). Pattern match "xmlrpc.php" at REQUEST_URI. [file "/services/config/apache.conf.d/mod_security_custom.conf"] [line "1"] [id "1234123588"] [msg "xmlrpc"] [hostname "blog.hansonstage.com"] [uri "/xmlrpc.php"]

Renaming the .htaccess file didn’t make a difference. (I also copied in the .htaccess from the working blog for laughs but that didn’t change anything either.) The .htaccess file has code for a HTTPS Redirection Plugin (which I removed to see if that might be the cause but it didn’t make a difference) and the WordPress code and that is all (until I add SetEnv PHP_Version 53)

I am working with the host now to set up / access error logs to try and get more details on what is going on.

Yes. I did a “Bulk Action” Deactivate on all the plug-ins and Activated Twenty Nineteen. I removed the “SetEnv PHP_Version 53” from the .htaccess and the following error is still appearing when I try to get to the /wp-admin login page.

Server error!

The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI server

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 500

My host says that the only stable version is 5.3 because the whole blog is not compatible with any other version. I just can’t figure out what part is unstable to correct it.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by concertkatie.

It is currently version 5.0.4

After trying a bunch of troubleshooting issues it turns out that the problem was related to my server and their mod_security firewall. I was able to change the settings and now it is working fine.

I reactivated and it is still happening.

The error goes away when Spelling/Grammar is deactivated.