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Thanks for your response. I’ve satisfied myself that the URLs are still being generated, by using a website analysis tool. It retrieves them, and Google does too. But I’m stumped as to how they are generated. WordPress and Wordfence have been removed, I’m preventing any PHP initialise scripts from running, and blocking parameterised URLs in .htaccess. It’s problematic as these URLs are seen as duplicates, which affects SEO. I’ve now blocked parameterised URLs in robots.txt which I’m hoping will resolve it. I see from Google that others have this problem too. Do you have any insights?

Thanks Cory!
The issue seems to be that the directory wp-snapshots has permissions of 0750. If I add 0755 permission then I can download the file. This seems to be a new feature from my previous duplicator usage – I never had to change the permissions before.
On another topic – is it OK to delete the contents of wp-snapshots?

Best regards

Mike, I’ve resolved the issue. It turned out to be a permissions issue serverside. Somehow the posting permissions white list got screwed up. Why it allowed the add to cart to work sometimes and not others is a mystery. Thanks for all your help!

NO, there’s no object cache file in wp-content. The hosting provider is Clook

Thanks for helping

Well I know a bit more now. I put wireshark on the wire and what is happening is this.
If I use the woocommerce system status tools to reset all transients, reset usage tracking etc – reset everything. Then the add to cart works as it should. A post is made to the page a 200 response is issued and all is well.
If I then immediately add the exact same product to the cart again the add to cart fails with a 403 forbidden http response. Since the add to cart worked once its not a server permissions issue or a missing file. So I guess its a sessions issue of some kind – but I don’t know what.
Totally stumped & outside my comfort zone! I presume there is some kind of session control to prevent random posts to a webpage ?

Its not the cacheing. It happens with it turned off. Also I find that the add to cart function SOMETIMES works on PC but not always.

Thanks Mike. No I’m logged out when its working. I’ll experiment with the cacheing

I’m going to have to recreate this situation since I worked around it by removing nextgen. I don’t think its a database issue. I’ll get back to you with detailed information shortly.

Thanks for the response

Jeff

I’ve discovered a problem with nexgen gallery & duplicator. References to the original site are retained when the site is migrated to a new URL. Uninstalling the plugin & reinstalling does not fix the issue, nor does deleting the post & recreating it. PM me for specific details.

regards

I had the same issue, and the development version solved it for me. Thanks for all your good work !