shspivey

@sharmadpk03,

I will post results back when I get time to test this issue for plugin conflicts. I am setting this site up in my local development environment so I can test thoroughly.

Thanks,
Scott

@sharmadpk03,

I was able to resolve the issue temporarily by disabling Ajax on the Everest forms. Do you have any idea what would cause that issue when Ajax is selected?

Scott

@jim5471 – that is the file directory location to the PHP file that is throwing the error.

I am running the same configuration in Dev and not getting this error/notice. There have been some major plugin updates with the configuration I have put together so I am testing the plugins one at a time to see if I can figure out where the conflict is.

@jim5471 – thanks for the feedback. I got the previous version of the plugin and rolled it back. Unfortunately that did not solve my problem. I am investigating what could be a WPML issue causing all of this. The notices I am getting about tribe-events could ultimately be a smoke screen that had me looking in the wrong place all along.

Thanks,

Scott

@rur165,

Any other idea what might be causing this problem? I’m interested in rolling Dokan into production but can’t unless I can solve this issue.

Thanks,

Scott

Hello @rur165,

I should have mentioned in my original post that I did confirm my permalink settings were configured to the specification in the getting-started document. I just double checked and they are set properly.

Thanks,

Scott

Marc,

Thank you for the response, this is exactly what the problem was. I updated wp-config manually and all is well.

Scott

I have looked at the owners/permissions and compared them back to other servers I have running. The ownership/permissions are the same as I have on other servers which all work fine. Something else has started causing this problem and I can’t figure out what that is. I had to set the plugins directory to 775 temporarily to get all my plugins updated. I’ll have to keep digging until I uncover the issue.

Ok I finally found something that is working, but I am concerned about the update this requires.

I update permissions on wp-content to 775 and I am now able to update plugins. But I have three other WordPress servers running with the same configuration and the permissions on wp-content for all of those servers are set at 755 and I can apply updates without any issue.

Anybody have a thought on what could be causing this?

Ok I manually installed Health Check and ran that on my server. There is 1 Critical Error in the information: I have Plugins that need updating.

That is my problem, I can’t update my plugins. I am posting the info from the plugin here, maybe somebody else will notice something I am missing. Since I am running a Multisite install I just ran site check on the default user blog.

### wp-core ###

version: 5.2.5
site_language: en_US
user_language: en_US
permalink: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
https_status: true
user_registration: false
default_comment_status: open
multisite: true
user_count: 11
site_count: 10
network_count: 1
dotorg_communication: true

### wp-dropins (1) ###

sunrise.php: true

### wp-active-theme ###

name: Twenty Nineteen (twentynineteen)
version: 1.4
author: the WordPress team
author_website: https://www.ads-software.com/
parent_theme: none
theme_features: automatic-feed-links, title-tag, post-thumbnails, menus, html5, custom-logo, customize-selective-refresh-widgets, wp-block-styles, align-wide, editor-styles, editor-style, editor-font-sizes, editor-color-palette, responsive-embeds, widgets
theme_path: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen

### wp-themes-inactive (13) ###

Flash Pro AsystYOU Technology: version: 1.0.1570210944, author: ThemeGrill
Flash Pro Pioneer Graphics: version: 1.0.1557245803, author: ThemeGrill
Flash Pro: version: 2.2.9, author: ThemeGrill
Suffice Pro Partners AsystYOU: version: 2.0.1.1572893572, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro AsystYOU: version: 2.0.1.1570821178, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro Ben Hill Chamber: version: 2.0.1.1571236441, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro Ben Hill County Georgia: version: 2.0.1.1570720953, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro Southern PT: version: 1.0.1570062712, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro Vet Fitzgerald: version: 1.0.1562028240, author: Themegrill
Suffice Pro: version: 2.0.1, author: Themegrill
TotalBusiness (Shared by JOJOThemes.com): version: 1.00, author: Goodlayers
Twenty Seventeen: version: 2.2, author: the WordPress team
Twenty Sixteen: version: 2.0, author: the WordPress team

### wp-plugins-active (12) ###

All-in-One WP Migration: version: 7.11, author: ServMask (latest version: 7.14)
All-in-One WP Migration Multisite Extension: version: 3.85, author: ServMask (latest version: 3.87)
All In One SEO Pack: version: 3.3.3, author: Michael Torbert (latest version: 3.3.4)
Child Theme Configurator: version: 2.5.0, author: Lilaea Media (latest version: 2.5.2)
Everest Forms: version: 1.5.6, author: WPEverest (latest version: 1.5.10)
Health Check & Troubleshooting: version: 1.4.2, author: The www.ads-software.com community
Livemesh SiteOrigin Widgets: version: 2.5.7, author: Livemesh
Page Builder by SiteOrigin: version: 2.10.13, author: SiteOrigin
Really Simple SSL: version: 3.2.6, author: Rogier Lankhorst, Mark Wolters (latest version: 3.2.7)
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle: version: 1.15.9, author: SiteOrigin
ThemeGrill Demo Importer: version: 1.6.0, author: ThemeGrill (latest version: 1.6.1)
WP Mail SMTP: version: 1.7.0, author: WPForms (latest version: 1.8.1)

### wp-plugins-inactive (16) ###

Akismet Anti-Spam: version: 4.1.2, author: Automattic (latest version: 4.1.3)
Braintree For WooCommerce: version: 3.0.9, author: Payment Plugins, [email protected] (latest version: 3.1.1)
Business Directory Plugin: version: 5.5.11, author: D. Rodenbaugh (latest version: 5.5.13.1)
Contact Form 7: version: 5.1.4, author: Takayuki Miyoshi (latest version: 5.1.6)
Flash Toolkit: version: 1.2.0, author: ThemeGrill
Goodlayers Importer: version: 1.0.0, author: Goodlayers
Goodlayers Portflio Post Type: version: 1.0.0, author: Goodlayers
Goodlayers Shortcode: version: 1.0, author: Goodlayers
Master Slider Pro: version: 3.2.14, author: averta
Popup Maker: version: 1.8.14, author: Popup Maker
Simple Tags: version: 2.5.5, author: Amaury BALMER (latest version: 2.5.7)
Suffice Toolkit: version: 1.0.4, author: ThemeGrill
TablePress: version: 1.9.2, author: Tobias B?thge
VarkTech Pricing Deals for WooCommerce: version: 2.0.1.1, author: Vark
WooCommerce: version: 3.8.1, author: Automattic
WordPress MU Domain Mapping: version: 0.5.5.1, author: Donncha O Caoimh

### wp-media ###

image_editor: WP_Image_Editor_GD
imagick_module_version: Not available
imagemagick_version: Not available
gd_version: bundled (2.1.0 compatible)
ghostscript_version: not available

### wp-server ###

server_architecture: Linux 4.4.0-1100-aws x86_64
httpd_software: Apache
php_version: 7.2.16 64bit
php_sapi: fpm-fcgi
max_input_variables: 1000
time_limit: 120
memory_limit: 256M
max_input_time: 300
upload_max_size: 40M
php_post_max_size: 40M
curl_version: 7.45.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2q
suhosin: false
imagick_availability: false
server-headers: 
	date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:45:32 GMT
	server: Apache
	x-powered-by: PHP/7.2.16
	expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
	cache-control: Array
	link: <...>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
	x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
	x-mod-pagespeed: 1.13.35.2-0
	vary: Accept-Encoding
	content-encoding: gzip
	content-length: 6888
	content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
htaccess_extra_rules: false

### wp-database ###

extension: mysqli
server_version: 8.0.15
client_version: mysqlnd 5.0.12-dev - 20150407 - $Id: 3591daad22de08524295e1bd073aceeff11e6579 $

### wp-constants ###

WP_HOME: undefined
WP_SITEURL: undefined
WP_CONTENT_DIR: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content
WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /opt/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocs/wp-content/plugins
WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT: 256M
WP_DEBUG: false
WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY: true
WP_DEBUG_LOG: false
SCRIPT_DEBUG: false
WP_CACHE: false
CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_SCRIPTS: undefined
COMPRESS_CSS: undefined
WP_LOCAL_DEV: undefined

### wp-filesystem ###

wordpress: writable
wp-content: not writable
uploads: writable
plugins: writable
themes: writable

Ok I don’t see anything helpful in the Apache error_log file. I checked the access_log too just to see if something was recorded there but so far nothing that seems relevant. When I check the error_log immediately after I try to update the plugin and get the error message, there is no record of an error there.

I’m still researching trying to find something useful.

Ok so maybe my PHP and Apache logs are the same thing. I’m still trying to get used to Linux.

Let me dig a little deeper in the logs, maybe I am overlooking something obvious.

I didn’t think about disk quota but I do check that frequently. I am currently running at 4% capacity. I have another server that was hit with a brute force attack in December, so disk quota checks are now a common, daily practice.

I will look in the PHP error logs and see what I find. I have been looking through the Apache error logs, but haven’t found anything relevant. I didn’t consider the PHP logs.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by shspivey.

Ok I just isolated the problem with my site to a brute force attack. I have been examining the drive space every day for irregularities and happened to check the drive today while an attack was going on. I could see the UPDATE queries being run against the wp_usermeta table and was able to isolate those queries to an attack against wp_login.php.

I have blocked the IP address associated with the attack. I am going to run the plugins you suggested now and see what I can do about cleaning up the 175GB worth of unindexed data the attacks created. I will post results when I am finished.

What recommendations do you have for protecting my WordPress install against brute force attacks?

Thanks,
Scott