It's been a while now that i'm using Wordpress; and I know it quite well.
But this time, I've got a problem I've never seen :
My website freezes as soon as I try to go to the backend.
The frontend works, but when I go to /wp-admin, it stops working and eventually fires a "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" error.
Then the whole website (and FTP) is then down for about 5 minutes, then it comes back.
I don't know what as been changed since last time it worked.
Here's what I did try so far :
override my Wordpress folder with a fresh install
disable plugins (renamed wp-content/plugins to wp-content/pluginsOLD)
disable current theme (renamed wp-content/themes/my-theme to wp-content/themes/my-themeOLD)
edited wp-config.php file to enable debugging with WP_DEBUG, WP_DEBUG_LOG and SAVEQUERIES set to true; no debug.log is generated.
I also considered a server issue and waited for about 24hours. But my other websites (which are hosted on the same place) just work fine.
Any ideas about this ? I'm getting mad :)
My host had blacklisted my IP, that's why I wasn't able to access it.
I guess each time I was trying to access the backend, they did freeze my website to avoid an attack or something.
Well, this may be interesting for others. If I had knew it, I would have change my IP... :/
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I am testing/learning how to send info from a Gravity form to a test file on my website.
I am using a testfile.txt that I added in var/www/ which is the location of the Wordpress directory.
The command I am running updates that file and I am able to see its contents when i go to the domain: mywebsite.com/testfile.txt.
The first time I run the Gravity form, I can see the changes on the webpage. However, after updating its contents to something else, the webpage does not update despite reloading it.
To troubleshoot this, I SSH'd into the server to see if the file was being updated and indeed it was...
So, basically, the file is being updated on the server but not on my GoDaddy domain... Has anybody encountered a problem like this? And if so does anyone have a solution?
I am no Expert in this field, Beginner to be honest. When I was learning Python flask a framework for building website, I had similar issue. Maybe the problem is that, when you visit your website it loads from the cache. To solve that press 'ctrl + F5', it forces a cache refresh, and will guarantee that IF the content is changed, you will get the new content. Again, I am beginner myself.
As #Sadman said, whenever I don't see my content getting updated I do a hard refresh or delete the cookies and cache manually. Either one of these solved my problem. To make a hard refresh press ctrl+shift+r or ctrl+f5 or shift+f5 on windows. On MAC this is cmd+R. I hope this helps!
I've been using codekit for ages now, and now I've been using the version 3 since it came out.
I really like this app, but there's something I never really understood and I decided to post it here (hoping to finally understand how this works and how to make it works like I want).
I have MAMP pro installed, with some hosts.
Let's say I have this list of hosts with (fake) document root:
localhost -> documents/site1/dist
test -> documents/sitetest/dist
and let's assume that test is a wordpress site having the site url set to
http://test/ in the database.
In codekit, when I enable the browser refresh, the bottom options asks me to write down the address I would visit to see my website.
Now, if I navigate to http://test/ my WordPress website loads and I am able to see everything.
In codekit I then setup the browser refreshing options to be the following:
Animation: ticked
Refresh Delay: 0.0 seconds (default)
Preview: empty
Document-Root Subpath: empty
External Server Required: on
External Server Address: http://test/
Then when I click on the green dot (server) to preview my website, I'm expecting codekit to navigate to http://test:5757 and to properly display my website. This, unfortunately, is not the case. When I click on the preview (or server, it doesn't really make any difference for me) codekit navigates to my mac IP and the website is either not loading or loading without any external resource.
I don't think the issue is in the way I load the resource in WordPress (i use enqueue sources properly, and the website without using codekit refresh function works, load and displays as meant to).
So far, I always switched my current project to use the localhost host (changing the document root in MAMP pro) and then telling codekit to use the localhost ip as external server, but now it's a bit more complex, as I have way more projects and I was hoping not to change back and forth the document root to use codekit built in refreshing feature.
Is it possible? am I missing something here?
I read all I was able to find as well as watched the videos on codekit, but this bit here is still a bit unknown to me and any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
PS: No need to mention I am on a MAC, right? :)
I don't believe I actually managed to fix this.
I'll leave the answer here in case somebody else is facing the same issue.
The problem I had was that my website http://test/ was using a theme called test.
Codekit, for refreshing the browser, uses a simple string search and replace in the URL, and so everything that looked like "test" in the url was replaced by the internal ip.
Quick example:
http://test/wp-content/themes/test/index.php
became
http://192.168.0.1:5757/wp-content/themes/192.168.0.1:5757/index.php
and of course no file where loaded successfully, as the path was wrong.
To fix this?
Just change the MAMP pro address to something that won't be present in the URL (in my case, the MAMP pro host called test became dev.test and problem solved.
I have around 10 plugins installed.
I use a wordpress theme by sitemile.
The site works fine sometimes, but very often, if I were to go to the login or sign up page, it displays the 500 internal error. I want to set up logs for see to see whats happening but I am not sure how I can do that.
Also, sometimes the homepage of the website loads very funky but if i go to other pages, it may or may not load that page properly.
Not an internet issue. Cleared cache as well. Interestingly, I see different results in normal and incognitu browsers.
Do these internal errors occur most of the time when you have a lot of plugins? Is there some other source of problem that I can check to make sure everything in my site is alright?
Error screenshot attached.
Homepage of website
Depending on your webhost, you might already have more details in a log file. Often times with apache it's called "error_log" and it can be found in your root directory or the directory of the file causing the error.
It could be anything from access permissions or a security block. So it's going to be hard for someone to give you an answer on this without more information.
Things to try:
You can try disabling one plugin at a time until it works.
Look for an error_log (or similar) file
Double check all of the file permissions, chmod and chown
Contact your web host and see if they can provide any insight
If you ARE the web host (or manage the server yourself) then you can check the apache error logs (if enabled) and/or security logs on the server
Double check any errors on the .htaccess file
A script could be consuming too much resources or taking too long to load, you can narrow it down by process of elimination and then disable/patch the culprit
I run a website http://sciantechnologies.com/.
Now, if you go to that URL, it loads fine, however if you google search "Scian Technologies", it will return a link that looks like this:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDgQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsciantechnologies.com%2F&ei=3AY8UdLvF8Gi2gXxXg&usg=AFQjCNGT916DDNRiBhq31Qu6fz0-_GDOFg&sig2=iHtZm7pPyQGdcyZczOUMRg&bvm=bv.43287494,d.b2I
Which if you click on it, will redirect you to the correct URL, but for some reason it seems to pick up a 403 along the way. Funny thing is it leaves the correct URL in the address bar, and if you click on that and press enter, it works fine.
I didn't set up anything special here - it's just a wordpress site... anyone else had this behavior or have any ideas? I'm really scratching my head over it - it doesn't seem to make any sense!
Google has indexed your base domain (not including www).
You'll want to put a 301 redirect to your www subdomain.
Then wait for Google to reindex your site.
For those of you who use a web provider for hosting and hit this issue, I have managed to fix this. The support team were completely useless. Anyway, I fixed this by deleting my virtual host in the gui panel (which the support team actually advised me against) and recreated it. I never saw their virtual hosts config (they refused to show it to me) but I'm guessing when I installed wp using their magical installer script, it made changes to the virtual host configuration (most likely mod rewrite related) which I had no visibility of. Deleting the virtual domain then wiped this and started cleanly again. Note if you're doing this:
Delete the virtual domain and let it kick in (I.e. take your website down) before recreating it
There is no guarantee that deleting the virtual domain will actually wipe this configuration. It may just unlink it server side.
Hope this helps someone!
i am currently hosting my site on justhost (just as a test server), when i save my work on my local computer through aptana the files are automatically uploaded to the hosting server, and they appear fine. However this only works for my actual files like .php and .html
They do not work for my .css files, so if i save them and upload them the changes do not take effect, until like the next day, or if i turn my computer on and off and leave it a couple of hours, i am not sure why they are not taking effect immediately like the rest of the fiels.
I have tried deleting my cache and adding ?ver=1.0 to the end of the file name, but still no luck.
Also, i checked the hosting directly and the css file has updated to the correct version, but just does not show in browser.
Any ideas on what could be wrong, it would make life much easier if i could get them updating like the other files.
Thanks
I can't be sure what is causing this, but if I'm correct - the files do upload, its not a case of not uploading. It's one of these things
The Cache is holding it (already cleared it though?)
The file is doing some odd cross server transfer, depends what sort of hosting your on, but it may be the file is getting held up somewhere
Try clearing the DNS Cache
Start > type CMD > in the dialog type:
ipconfig /flushdns
That may force the computer to reload the file.
As for an ongoing solution to prevent it in the future I'm out...
I know it has been a while, but as others may find this question the way I did, the solution for me was to enable Cloudflare Developer Mode. Cloudflare was keeping the css files in cache and it drove me crazy to find the solution in another forum. I hope your case may be the same as mine as thus you can solve it as well.