John Darrel

Awesome job!

Glad that you managed to make it work.

I will mark this thread as resolved.

Best regards,
John

Hi @lfedele,

Thanks for the feedback.

Just changed the plugins and we didn’t notice any issue with the WPML, but please try this:

1. Switch off the option
Hide My WP > Tweaks > Change Options > Change Paths for Logged Users

https://hidemywpghost.com/kb/activate-security-tweaks/#change_paths_logged_users

2. Try only with WPML & Hide My WP Ghost plugins and check if the language change works.

3. Use the predefined paths when selecting a Level of Security in Hide My WP > Change Paths. Also with wp-admin path unchanged.

Note! Try also with another browser to prevent any browser cache on the old paths.

Best, John

Hi @blue43,

When the new paths are not loading correctly (theme layout is affected and get 404 errors on resource files), the new paths for CSS and JS are not found.

Now, as I don’t know your server configuration, I will send you help for all servers that may need manual configuration:

1. This usually happens on Nginx servers if the new paths are not added in the Nginx config and the Nginx service is reloaded.

To configure the plugin on Nginx Servers please follow this tutorials:
https://hidemywpghost.com/how-to-setup-hide-my-wp-on-nginx-server/
https://hidemywpghost.com/how-to-configure-hide-my-wp-on-nginx-web-server-with-virtual-private-server/

2. On Litespeed servers, if the Allowoverride is no set to ALL the .htaccess file can’t load the new paths.

Here is a tutorial we wrote for these situations to help configure the server correctly:
https://hidemywpghost.com/theme-not-loading-correctly-website-loads-slower/

Useful links:
https://hidemywpghost.com/kb/how-to-set-allowoverride-all/
https://hidemywpghost.com/make-sure-htaccess-is-working-with-allowoverride-all/

Note! After you save the settings in HMWP Ghost with the custom paths, clear the Litespeed cache from your server and the plugin.

To deactivate the plugin and login using the old paths, follow this link:
https://hidemywpghost.com/hide-my-wp-how-to-disable-the-lugin-in-case-of-error/

Hope this helps,
John

Hi @mohamedzaky,

Please upgrade the plugin to the last version as we did some updates for LiteSpeed servers.

Don’t forget to purge the LiteSpeed cache after saving the settings in HMWP Ghost.

John

Hi @supasomsak,

This is more of a support request but will paste the answer here.

If you deactivate the plugin from Admin Plugins tab, the plugin will clear the rewrites from .htaccess if the file is writable. If .htacess is not rewritable, you need to do that manually as you did when configuring the plugin.

Having the rules in .htaccess file will not replace the WordPress common paths and when you deactivate the plugin, the old paths will work either way.

Note! If you still have any old path called on the frontend, this is because of the cache or CDN that needs to be cleared. A deactivated plugin can’t change any path on WordPress as it doesn’t load anymore.

Regarding database errors, this can’t be from Hide My WP Ghost plugin as the plugin doesn’t change the database. The only information is added in the “_options” table for saving the plugin settings. Probably there is a plugin installed that didn’t work with custom paths but it’s always the best way to test with a staging website and not the live website.

You can see on our tutorial that we encourage everyone to create a backup before installing the plugin:

https://hidemywpghost.com/kb/hide-my-wp-ghost-tutorial/

Again, this is not an error in Hide My WP Ghost as the plugin only adds rewrite rules to virtually change the WordPress common paths and to protect the website from known attacks.

Hi @028382sj,

Did you follow the tutorial for setting the rules in WpEngine after you changed the paths in HMWP Ghost?

Hide My WP – WP Engine Setup

As Peter says, 502 is a server error so it must be from the rewrite rules that are not working on Wp Engin for the new paths, including login.

John

Hey,

It is strange to see that the paths are still changed even though nothing changes them.

Did you search in DB if there is any chance for the custom paths to be saved by a plugin?

A solution to avoid the website’s slow loading is to add the rules in .htaccess until you find the source of the issue.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?core/modules/(.*) /wp-content/plugins/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?core/views/(.*) /wp-content/themes/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?storage/(.*) /wp-content/uploads/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?core/(.*) /wp-content/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?lib/(.*) /wp-includes/$2 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

John

Hi Jhonny,

When you deactivate the plugin from WordPress Plugins panel, all the rewrite rules are removed from the config files (like .htaccess on Apache servers).

When you delete the plugin from WordPress Plugins panel, all the data from DB is deleted.

John

Hi @toshiamcbrowns,

Please try this:

1. Switch off the option Hide My WP > Tweaks > Rss & Feeds > Change Paths in RSS feed

2. Add these lines in the wp-config.php to debug the errors from Shortpixels:

define('SHORTPIXEL_DEBUG', true);
define('SHORTPIXEL_USE_DOUBLE_WEBP_EXTENSION', true);

The log will be created at /wp-content/uploads/ShortpixelBackups/shortpixel_log and you should see the error messages and why the webp is not created for the uploaded images.

Also, try to run a Media > Bulk ShortPixel to create the webp extensions (Check with the File Manager if the webp files are created correctly at wp-content/uploads)

John

Hi Jhonny,

Thanks for the feedback.

There could be 2 possibilities:
1. You restore a backup of your website or from Hide My WP > Backup / Restore
2. You select Lite Mode, Safe Mode, or Ghost Mode in Hide My WP > Change Paths, the predefined paths are selected.

You can check the logs from Hide My WP > Events Log to see the actions made on your server.

Hope this helps,
John

• This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by John Darrel.

Hi, if you set to hide the wp-admin path from Hide My WP > Change Paths > Admin Security, then you need to access the new login path to be able to login to admin.

You can switch off the “Hide wp-admin” option if you still want to access the wp-admin and be redirected to the login page.

Hope this helps,
John

Hi,

Our team is still working on this and monitoring the update if it’s working with different settings.

John

Hi,

Checked again and if the option Hide My WP > Advanced > Compatibility > Clean Login option is on, it tries to hide the WordPress default logo and show the logo you set on Appearance > Customize > Site Logo.

If you switch off the Clean Login option, the logo will not be changed and the CSS will not be added to the login page.

John

Hi,

I checked the source code with the inspector and it seems that the plugins and theme name are hidden from the common paths.

View post on imgur.com

Check with a different browser or from incognito if you set not to change the paths while logged in. Maybe it was a cache that still shown the old paths.

John

I used the predefined paths in Hide My WP > Change Paths > Lite Option
For WP Fastest Cache I activated all the options from the free version.
On Avada, I didn’t set any option, just installed the plugins and demo theme.

You can test with a different host to see if it works.

John
hidemywpghost.com