eatandbemerry

Oh shoot. Thanks anyhow.

thank youuuu!

responses:

1.] i never get the message ‘your request cannot be accepted’ at any other time than when i’m already logged in….so thankfully that means i’m not blocked. so i’m guessing, based on your responses, that’s only going to appear when the system doesn’t recognize i’m ‘me’ — an admin. perhaps it’s the site overloaded at the time with its memory being focused on activating the new plugin i’m trying to activate when i get that message…and as a result, your plugin can’t access the folder where my identity is. so it doesn’t recognize i’m ‘me.’ all the memory resources are taking up the memory resources that your plugin would normally have….just a guess, but perhaps that’s it!

2.] if it is merely the CSS in my library…THANK GOD. then i assume that means i just need to reinstall whatever CSS file the library uses, right….? please tell me that’s it. otherwise, i was considering a total wipe and reinstall… :/

3.] i’m currently just coming out of a brute force attack (which your plugin helped deter — had several WP-ZEP blocks you did, thank you!) and do not want to post too much about my site online…would be happy to give you the plugins list you asked for, but privately. so, please tell me how to get you that info; it makes me insecure to post that much information here.

4.] i was amazed that i wasn’t getting attacked anymore by a ‘brute force attack’ lol and with the library error…last night i was terrified my install of IP Geo Block plugin was somehow damaged from all the reinstalls and whatnot i’ve done recently. nothing was coming up as trying to hack my site anymore! hahaa…so. i deactivated, deleted [had the ‘remove all settings’ option checked before i did]….then did a fresh install of the plugin again. and today i wake up and find two attempts were made. strange thing, though: i had put all my same settings up as before, including the country block. china was on that list. and a chinese IP got through — they only accessed the ‘public’ folder, but still….guessing that they are trying to see what my site is made up of so they can attack later. vulnerabilities, plugins, version of wordpress….etc. HOW is this possible? i thought all IPs from a country are blocked when i put a country on the block list. how is any CN address not immediately blocked, no matter how/where they access my site?? i want all CN traffic blocked! ?? please tell me how this is possible. i was stunned….

P.S.: that message (‘sorry, your request…’) appears when I sometimes go to activate a new plugin…but not when I’m logging in.

It also happens when I recently did a restore operation of a backup. Ironically it was me doing a backup because your plugin was likely messing up the arrangement of the Media Library…I LOVE your plugin, too. The fact that that error message is tied to it, and the Library being all weird now…ugh. This isn’t good! ?? Please respond ASAP. I don’t want my site to crash.

OH SHOOT. I’ve been getting those messages on occasion. I had no idea it was possibly due to your plugin! ??

NOW the latest issue — a Library ‘oddity’ has made me wonder what the heck is going on. It’s apparently tied to your plugin; I posted the details of that Library issue just a short while ago. But…this, coupled with that…I hope it isn’t a sign that my server/PHP is about to die.

Is there a workaround for all this, on my end?

Here are my stats:

OS Type: Linux skymaster 3.2.61-grsec-modsign #1 SMP x86_64 (64 bit)
Server Software: Apache
CPU Cores: 8 Cores
Load Average: 7.04, 7.35, 7.82
Disk Space: 4.07 GB (18%) used of 23.14 GB total
Database Size: 21.45 MB
MySQL Version: 5.6.34-log
Database Charset (Collate): utf8 (n/a)
PHP Version: 7.0.24
PHP Extensions: Core, date, libxml, pcre, sqlite3, filter, mbstring, SPL, PDO, Reflection, pdo_sqlite, hash, session, cgi-fcgi, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, standard, ftp, gd, gettext, exif, iconv, imap, json, mcrypt, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pdo_mysql, posix, pspell, mysqli, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib, imagick, Zend OPcache
Max Upload, Post Size (Input Vars): 100M, 105M (3000)
Memory Usage: 16M (4%) of 400M (actual limit)
WP Memory Limit: 400M (defined limit)
WP Admin Memory Limit: 256M (defined limit)
WP Debug: Disabled (no logging, display)
Opcache Size (Max Files, Revalidate): 4M (3907, 2 secs)
Page Cache (Plugin): Disabled
Object Cache: Disabled

Thank you so much!!! I feel much better now. See, I thought that was it, but I needed to hear that was the case from someone who knows this stuff. Your plugin is a lifesaver…would hate to not be able to use it!!

Have a great day. ??

OH THANK GOD it was approved lol.

Okay, here’s my system info…and no, I’ve not run the debugger; I hope you won’t ask me to do that lol:

SYSTEM INFO

OS Type: Linux skymaster 3.2.61-grsec-modsign #1 SMP x86_64 (64 bit)
Server Software: Apache
CPU Cores: 8 Cores
Load Average: 7.04, 7.35, 7.82
Disk Space: 4.07 GB (18%) used of 23.14 GB total
Database Size: 21.45 MB
MySQL Version: 5.6.34-log
Database Charset (Collate): utf8 (n/a)
PHP Version: 7.0.24
PHP Extensions: Core, date, libxml, pcre, sqlite3, filter, mbstring, SPL, PDO, Reflection, pdo_sqlite, hash, session, cgi-fcgi, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, standard, ftp, gd, gettext, exif, iconv, imap, json, mcrypt, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pdo_mysql, posix, pspell, mysqli, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib, imagick, Zend OPcache
Max Upload, Post Size (Input Vars): 100M, 105M (3000)
Memory Usage: 16M (4%) of 400M (actual limit)
WP Memory Limit: 400M (defined limit)
WP Admin Memory Limit: 256M (defined limit)
WP Debug: Disabled (no logging, display)
Opcache Size (Max Files, Revalidate): 4M (3907, 2 secs)
Page Cache (Plugin): Disabled
Object Cache: Disabled

Oopsie. Looks like the system didn’t like that screenshot link, lol. SORRY! It’s now being held for 72 freaking hours because I pasted it wrong. GREAT. Now I have to worry abt it being a sign I was hacked AND getting in trouble with the Admins here for posting a freaking link, lol…dammmmittt, haha.

SORRY!! Admins, just trying to get this issue resolved. I swear it’s not pr0n, or….something. Lol… ??

I hope to God this isn’t a time-sensitive issue that will crash my database that needs to get resolved now. Dammit.

i am happy to report…that’s what did it, lol. that’s all i had to do!! fwiw i also got another ‘warning’ when i ran google pagespeed insights — abt caching. that i needed to ‘leverage browser caching’…so i found other code too, and added it!

SO…if someone has that come up [the caching issue] along with the gzip not working part when you run google pagespeed insights, well here’s your solution! just use this code for your .htaccess file [you can eliminate the ‘wordfence’ part, i obvs have wordfence to have that there, it’s a security plugin if you don’t know, btw]…and you’ll be all set! ??

here’s the final .htaccess code i wound up using!

i hope this answer helps someone else down the road in the future. i’m still tweaking my site(s)…and hopefully i’ll get a speed score in the 90s soon for the one i’m working on right now. with all these tweaks i’ve raised it to 88; hoping for 98 soon! ?? wish me luck on that too, ok? ??

## EXPIRES CACHING ##
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresByType image/jpg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType image/png "access 1 year"
ExpiresByType text/css "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access 1 year"
ExpiresDefault "access 1 month"
</IfModule>
## EXPIRES CACHING ##

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

#Gzip
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript
</ifmodule>
#End Gzip

# Wordfence WAF
<Files ".user.ini">
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
	Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
	Order deny,allow
	Deny from all
</IfModule>
</Files>

# END Wordfence WAF

ohhhh….i love the internet. i found on another forum that someone added this code to their .htaccess file when using gzip at their shared dreamhost account….

#Gzip
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript
</ifmodule>
#End Gzip

so! that meant that my .htaccess file wound up looking like this (below).

and, for the noobs out there (like i was recently), i went into FTP and used the text editor there to live edit it on the site in FTP itself.

BUT first downloaded a copy of it (what it was like before i edited it) to my computer, into a folder i named, ‘htaccess file before edits for gzip’…

then, i duplicated that copy, pasted it into another folder i named, ‘htaccess file after edits for gzip’ then opened it up in aptana, edited it there…then copied that text, went back to the live/open file that was being used on the hosting server — it was open in FTP — and i was using the ‘text editor’ function…so, as i had the ‘text editor’ open, of the .htaccess file…i then pasted this code over the .htaccess file i had open, then saved it:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

#Gzip
<ifmodule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript
</ifmodule>
#End Gzip

# Wordfence WAF
<Files ".user.ini">
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
	Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
	Order deny,allow
	Deny from all
</IfModule>
</Files>

# END Wordfence WAF

and….ta-daaaa, it worked! well, the enabling of gzip on my site, that is. i have yet to re-install hummingbird (or any other caching program that unsuccessfully tried to use gzip in the past — w3 total cache, super cache, fastest cache, and the like)….i thought they were just crappy programs, until hummingbird told me gzip wasn’t enabled! then i used pagespeed ninja, and then google’s pagespeed insights…and they too told me gzip wasn’t enabled. so i know it wasn’t a hummingbird issue.

i’ve since run pagespeed ninja and google pagespeed insights, and they both tell me ‘compression enabled’…YAAY! ??

now, i just have to ((cross my fingers!)) reinstall hummingbird. wish me luck!

thanks!

my full .htaccess file is already posted above, tho.

OH CHECK IT OUT!!! i installed a plugin that gives me an overview of what’s on my site…neato. it’s called ‘server status’ and all the info appears in the admin dashboard. really love this. ??

they are:

OS Type: Linux skymaster 3.2.61-grsec-modsign #1 SMP Tue Aug 12 09:58:26 UTC 2014 x86_64 (64 bit)
Server Software: Apache
CPU Cores: 8 Cores
Load Average: 7.81, 7.58, 7.49
Disk Space: 4.00 GB (17%) used of 23.14 GB total
Database Size: 22.39 MB
MySQL Version: 5.6.34-log
Database Charset (Collate): utf8 (n/a)
PHP Version: 7.0.24
PHP Extensions: Core, date, libxml, pcre, sqlite3, filter, mbstring, SPL, PDO, Reflection, pdo_sqlite, hash, session, cgi-fcgi, bcmath, bz2, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, standard, ftp, gd, gettext, exif, iconv, imap, json, mcrypt, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pdo_mysql, posix, pspell, mysqli, SimpleXML, soap, sockets, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib, imagick, Zend OPcache
Max Upload, Post Size (Input Vars): 100M, 105M (3000)
Memory Usage: 48M (12%) of 400M (actual limit)
WP Memory Limit: 400M (defined limit)
WP Admin Memory Limit: 256M (defined limit)
WP Debug: Disabled (no logging, display)
Opcache Size (Max Files, Revalidate): 4M (3907, 2 secs)
Page Cache (Plugin): Disabled
Object Cache: Disabled

and P.S. if it wasn’t apparent before, i have no idea what i’m doing. ?? please do post what the *entire* htaccess file code should have in it, because fwiw i think i messed it up by putting the recommended [recommended by the hummingbird plugin, that is..in the gzip configuration screen] ‘manual method’ code in the wrong area of the htaccess file. or, i edited the file wrong. or….no idea. ??

but please, pleeease…..just paste the whole htaccess file code here — it’d be appreciated!! thank you in advance for help with this!

hey btw, this is what the text in my htaccess file says now (because it was restored)….no mention of hummingbird in there because i’ve not reinstalled it ((yet))….

where would i put the code that you would need me to put there? what would be the code that i should have in the *entire* file? that may have been what i did wrong before — why the ‘new version’ i made of the htaccess file, when i put the code in there that the ‘manual’ method in the screen to configure gzip compression in hummingbird told me to put in there. it may not have been the code itself, but where i put it in the file that crashed the site.

so, would you be so kind as to edit the following info that is in my pre-hummingbird installation htaccess file (below) and post it here? i’ll go and reinstall hummingbird after that. then it can install and hopefully immediately grab this code when it does. and i won’t have crashed the site ((again)) because i put the code in the wrong place in my htaccess file. well, at least that’s my hope! haha…

here’s what the htaccess file looks like for me, before i install hummingbird…again, please bear in mind that this is the file and how it appears due to a rollback to its original state after i had to restore the site to its pre-hummingbird state:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

# Wordfence WAF
<Files ".user.ini">
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
	Require all denied
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
	Order deny,allow
	Deny from all
</IfModule>
</Files>

# END Wordfence WAF

[Moderator note: code fixed. Please wrap code in the backtick character or use the code button.]

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by bdbrown.

ohhhh the good [?] news: i know the .htaccess file is being read, because when i edited it ‘wrongly’ before — if that’s the way to put it — the site was messed up. so it’s definitely being touched. ?? that’s precisely why i had to do the restore! ??

so, what do you suggest i do next?

well…here’s the thing. it’s not public yet; i’d rather not take off the “under construction” status and have my ‘dummy photos’ and whatnot get indexed by google.

i’d much rather give you direct access through a username and password i’d set up only for you, so you could look at it that way. and also…i tried to do what was suggested in the “manual” option…….and messed up my site so badly i had to do a restore, lol.

but since then i also installed ‘pagespeed ninja’ and it also said compression (gzip) was not able to be enabled — so i know it’s not a fluke. and every other gzip program i’ve installed has not produced any results; like they were never installed there in the first place. which makes sense now that gzip isn’t being “activated” or “enabled”….glad to see hummingbird has confirmed that for me. pagespeed ninja too, but not as specifically as hummingbird! ??

do you have a private email address or something that i can use to give you temporary access (login, password) to my site?