seriousthings

look at #12 and #17 on the Dashboard tab..

Mine says,
Your .htaccess file is fully secured.
Better WP Security is allowed to write to wp-config.php and .htaccess.

There is an obvious bug because others have reported it on this board too.. and I just had one yesterday. No idea how they get through.. check your htaccess file to make sure the IPs are getting added?

It does block them as my site is way down in 404s. As for the admin logins, use the “hide” tab.. change your login page to something else. The admin login attempts vanished once I changed that. Don’t forget what you changed it to tho and make sure you are whitelisted. ??

Here try this list – I’ve been focusing on my list for the last month. Most (if not all) of the ranges that are blocked are hosting services. :-/

101.108.138.187
103.246.244.143
106.169.49.21
107.158.23.*
107.2.168.255
107.6.144.230
108.163.*.*
108.178.*.*
108.240.137.118
109.232.224.132
109.254.19.34
109.75.111.131
109.91.66.79
113.163.125.26
113.212.69.132
115.137.211.205
117.102.121.3
118.137.244.61
120.61.38.165
125.163.192.106
125.253.121.210
128.30.52.*
130.185.156.219
130.204.48.184
136.145.181.36
14.192.210.79
142.0.38.94
142.4.*.*
142.91.*.*
144.76.109.109
149.154.158.71
151.237.186.*
151.237.186.114
159.224.32.81
162.213.218.153
165.231.14.68
172.240.27.*
172.241.216.25
172.245.*.*
172.246.198.194
173.0.49.248
173.0.56.238
173.208.152.42
173.213.*.*
173.232.*.*
173.232.105.161
173.236.37.83
173.255.233.124
173.63.150.50
174.36.211.156
176.31.45.172
176.61.141.243
178.150.149.79
178.151.60.164
178.158.214.36
178.19.99.107
178.206.203.40
178.207.5.197
178.207.76.41
178.213.108.56
178.254.160.30
178.33.181.40
179.43.137.167
179.43.141.167
180.180.121.56
180.47.51.42
181.15.186.10
184.154.*.*
184.82.*.*
185.24.218.20
185.38.248.223
186.109.80.132
188.143.*.*
188.165.255.128
188.232.121.144
188.240.143.170
188.249.203.74
190.196.67.98
190.248.128.238
190.43.235.68
192.116.63.161
192.119.*.*
192.157.251.166
192.184.95.121
192.187.110.203
192.227.*.*
192.3.*.*
192.40.94.69
192.73.239.97
192.99.11.*
192.99.12.*
193.17.208.73
193.242.108.25
193.242.149.35
195.39.253.22
196.196.16.*
198.100.144.92
198.143.135.*
198.143.165.*
198.143.165.117
198.15.78.*
198.167.136.242
198.20.70.*
198.23.135.150
198.27.126.*
198.27.64.*
198.46.130.190
198.50.192.*
198.52.202.207
198.71.91.194
199.119.225.*
199.119.226.*
199.119.227.*
199.15.233.*
199.168.185.187
199.180.128.*
199.180.129.*
199.180.130.*
199.180.131.*
199.180.132.*
199.180.133.*
199.180.134.*
199.180.135.*
199.188.75.*
199.193.255.243
199.89.54.11
200.58.114.31
201.216.252.177
201.59.158.178
202.217.72.80
203.78.36.245
203.81.77.46
204.68.120.173
208.177.76.*
208.39.105.118
208.89.212.*
208.89.213.*
209.114.36.166
213.251.189.*
216.107.159.136
216.189.55.*
216.194.21.227
216.244.78.165
216.38.216.101
217.12.199.*
217.69.133.*
217.7.78.188
217.96.18.163
218.159.195.251
23.19.132.*
23.226.224.137
23.229.67.*
23.231.103.151
23.231.5.*
23.231.7.*
23.81.65.186
23.88.104.*
23.90.4.*
23.94.*.*
27.120.120.112
31.192.104.70
31.43.56.149
31.6.71.75
37.142.196.93
37.203.208.81
37.203.212.170
37.215.204.11
37.45.16.145
37.57.25.225
37.59.204.84
37.59.71.183
37.9.53.*
39.55.248.49
41.140.188.119
41.34.132.241
41.77.1.32
46.105.156.228
46.19.136.212
46.195.106.83
46.249.58.117
46.29.252.6
46.4.36.136
5.10.83.*
5.135.*.*
5.135.240.55
5.149.248.84
5.149.253.45
5.157.45.180
5.22.130.32
5.39.44.*
50.11.206.33
50.115.166.*
50.115.167.*
50.115.168.*
50.115.169.*
50.115.170.*
50.115.171.*
50.115.172.*
50.115.173.*
50.115.174.*
50.115.175.*
50.2.*.*
50.23.131.196
50.31.114.173
50.56.58.47
50.57.187.162
50.57.68.14
50.83.131.100
54.204.97.100
54.221.24.129
54.226.207.36
58.8.145.68
59.182.182.177
61.7.181.48
62.122.100.90
62.97.234.218
63.141.248.44
63.99.198.162
64.188.47.188
64.250.203.51
64.37.54.199
66.214.152.189
66.248.193.212
67.159.44.55
67.87.186.83
68.142.232.5
68.230.4.2
69.132.166.253
69.15.235.189
69.163.37.35
69.175.*.*
69.26.164.69
69.41.14.*
69.46.76.27
70.140.54.174
71.177.252.213
71.200.49.238
71.55.99.248
72.167.232.75
74.221.215.*
74.221.215.60
74.221.220.*
75.127.15.137
75.148.10.249
76.164.195.*
76.164.208.*
77.122.1.178
77.204.204.156
78.128.94.123
78.46.14.2
79.176.25.195
8.36.225.139
8.36.225.196
80.78.236.2
80.79.122.140
82.139.10.124
84.125.4.160
85.115.224.*
85.17.155.130
86.54.119.226
86.57.191.33
87.112.223.239
87.117.252.41
87.119.213.20
87.252.227.135
87.68.244.147
88.135.234.222
88.146.243.121
88.200.136.197
88.208.235.90
88.8.23.185
89.65.244.169
89.77.107.125
91.108.183.98
91.121.28.133
91.124.153.50
91.189.219.107
91.200.14.60
91.210.103.188
91.239.15.173
93.115.84.195
93.79.129.17
94.23.*.*
94.23.153.79
95.141.20.200
95.211.192.202
95.42.245.207
95.67.182.177
96.127.149.211
96.127.189.213
96.249.235.193
96.25.45.119
96.38.67.184
97.74.24.6
97.79.239.37
98.14.80.96
98.254.230.177
99.157.22.9
99.178.82.100
99.194.100.10

ha, nevermind.. didn’t see your follow-up post.

no clue what the user agent field is.. haven’t found any info on it myself.

I see that you are still placing the IP range in the user agent box. Place the IP range in the “ban hosts” box above it. 1 IP range per line.

Place it in the ban hosts field..

I think the slashes are showing up cuz of a zero you’re putting in there..

For instance,

55.555.55.55 – To block the last 2 ranges, put this line in – 55.555.*.*

Whenever you use the wildcard (*), make sure that is the only thing between the periods (no other #s).

try adding it as 001.123.123.123 ?? Just a suggestion cuz 001. and 1. are the same in an ip address.

same there here.. I get it on my favicon.ico all the time. I checked 3x, it’s there.. and, it’s showing up on my browser. No clue..

go to google, search: apple-touch-icon > go into their images. Find an image you would like to use.. Save image as: apple-touch-icon.png (make sure it is a .png file already, if not, find another?) – Then, whereever this file is at.. right click,copy,paste it to the same folder on your computer. Rename the 2nd one to apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png

upload both files to your root directory via FTP.

You should see some others popping up too.. I had a few, like apple-touch-icon-133×133.png or something (along with the precomposed error). So I had to upload like 6 files (2 of each size) to my root directory to get the errors to vanish.

p.s. the majority of people are running akismet. If it were a problem with this plugin and akismet, you can be rest assured that more people would be having the same problem.. 1000s of them. Almost everyone using the plugin and the same theme as you.

So ya, it works for me too. haha. But seriously… as you can see, that is part of your elimination process. If you can’t find via a google search that others are experiencing the same thing, that’s because your troubleshooting has narrowed it down to an incorrect culprit. So you have to back it up a bit. “Hmmm, I can’t find others that are having this editing page problem with these 2 plugins. Let me minus the 2 plugins as the culprit and do some more searching.” Then you are now back to sq 1, trying to find the culprit.

I’m feeling pretty confident in saying that it is not contact form 7. Every single time I had thought my problem was a plugin because it only happened with that plugin… my fix was some where else.

haha, ya. “It works for me”. Yay, thanks for wasting your 10secs of time that did nothing positive for the universe, haha.

I can’t say I know what the problem is, but it seems you are someone that can get around a bit in troubleshooting. This is what I personally would do..

First, I would disable all of the other plugins one at a time and see what happens. I’d get it down to the 2 that you assume are the challenge. Enable one, disable the other…and vice versa. I’d get it down to an elimination process.. Once you know, with 100000% certainty that it is indeed down to those 2 plugins creating the conflict (and you do not experience the issues with editing at any other time), then you have narrowed it down to step 1.

But see, your original type up shows in 1) that you have other editing page problems. Then, in 2).. you are showing more editing page problems and butting it up to the plug-ins. I’m going to suspect that it is not the plugins if you are experiencing other editing page problems w/o the plugins.

So, if what you typed up is indeed the case, there is something else wrong that is impacting the editing page already… maybe when you enable the plugin, it just makes it worse? What I can see, the problem is elsewhere.

I would also see if the issue can be duplicated in other browsers. Maybe you have some add-ons added that are conflicting w/ WP. I’d try WP in both IE, FF, and maybe even Chrome.. and see if it continues. If not, you have narrowed it down further..

Try it on a different computer…see what it does. Keep going if that isn’t it..

Personally, after doing google searching around about the editing page problem in WP (minus the blame on the plugin), if I could not find someone that was experiencing it too.. I would suspect somethiing on my end. If it wasn’t the computer, browser…I would suspect server side. So, I would probably back up the blog… then wipe it out and reinstall everything.

Oh, yes..I would update to php5. See, from everything you are saying, it is obvious you are experiencing other challenges. You can’t do auto WP updates cuz it just hangs on unpacking? Mine will go to an unpacking page, but at the bottom..it will eventually say done. Sometimes it takes a bit. By hitting back and not letting it finish, you could be screwing up the installs?

Idk…from what I’m reading, there seems to be a challenge elsewhere than the plugin. The plugin is just contributing to it and making it worse. I’d wipe it all off the server and get a fresh install done if php5, 3.04, browswer, computer, and other elimination processes don’t work.

Good job Laura! I was just going to recommend that you save your $ and do some searching around. I’m not a code monkey, but I have been able to figure out all of my challenges. I’m even learning to eat bananas. ??

Eventually, I went to W3 Total Cache. Both products are pretty good.

Way to go

ya, I tried godaddy… FTP is working just fine. The move from the linux shared hosting to the linux grid only changed my IP.. they said the servers are otherwise identical outside of the # of servers and how loads are handled.

In the compatibility check it says:
FTP functions: OK

Something didn’t get moved correctly or the old settings are still stuck in there some where.. No clue. FTP is working from cmd prompt and filezilla.. so it seems to be specific to w3tc

Here is the debug info.. It’s greek to me –

<!– W3 Total Cache: CDN debug info:
Engine: ftp
Replaced URLs:
https://serious-things.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/prayer.jpg => https://serious-things.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/prayer.jpg
https://serious-things.com/wp-content/themes/heatmap-adsense-theme/images/favicon.ico => https://serious-things.com/wp-content/themes/heatmap-adsense-theme/images/favicon.ico
https://serious-things.com/wp-content/w3tc/min/48d5d5/default.include.662092578.js => https://serious-things.com/wp-content/w3tc/min/48d5d5/default.include.662092578.js
–>

Thanks for chiming in Frederick.. Good timing, as I’m currently working on some difficulties with the FTP for CDN after a server move.

I ended up moving to a linux shared server and got w3tc setup. CDN/FTP was working fine, no challenges. The new linux server from godaddy was doggin’ bad, so I moved again to the grid linux at godaddy. After the move to the grid server, the FTP ceased to work.

My original settings were working just fine… Once the server was moved, I popped in the new IP address.. and I get Error: Unable to connect to <ip addy>. I can’t figure this one out cuz I can ftp into the site just fine from filezilla and other clients.

Any suggestions on where to look?

Problem fixed on my end by removing: ob_start(“ob_gzhandler”);

so now my page is cached, but uncompressed (windows server).

The compression is helping me much more than the cache… need to get onto a linux server.