AOIWPS seems to be crashing front end

Knowing what you changed yesterday would really help.

You do have a few security and firewall related plugins. I personally don’t think you need to use that many security plugins. You definitely should not use the WordPress Firewall plugin because that plugin hasn’t been updated in many years so it likely has compatibility issue with the current version of WordPress. Are you using any of the advanced features of the AIOWPS plugin?

Thanks for the warning; I have uninstalled WP Firewall.

Just spent another hour going around with this. Got the front end back up, deactivated all plugins, tried to start just AIOWPS. That alone crashed the front end.

I have re-started Acunetix. iThemes and Wordfence. With an attack every minute or so, I don’t feel safe leaving the blog up without protection!

Haven’t found a list of Advanced features on the web, so not sure. But I may have activated a few of those. I have deleted the AIOWPS folder in cPanel File Manager and then re-downloaded the plugin. That didn’t help. Are AIOWPS settings stored in another folder, so I can do a clean re-install?

Are AIOWPS settings stored in another folder, so I can do a clean re-install?

I noticed a folder in wp-content (not further down in plugins folder) called aiowps_backups. This contains an .htaccess file with only this text:

order deny,allow
deny from all

Is this good? Anyway, I renamed the aiowps_backups folder, and again reinstalled the AIOWPS plugin. Activating it crashed the front end. Tried same again, this time deleting the re-created .htaccess file before attempting to activate the plugin. Still no good.

Hi @ctenos, please be aware that your current plugin Ultimate TinyMCE, if you are still using it, it will not work well with WordPress 3.9 and above as stated by the developer. If you still want to use it then I suggest you install WP Edit.

Perhaps that is what has been causing your crash.

Kind regards

Thank you for that tip; I have made the switch. Is there some way to keep track of which plugins are current/supported without checking each one regularly?

Anyway, it failed even when all other plugins were deactivated. I just tried again with Ultimate TinyMCE uninstalled – no help.

I should probably be clearer about symptoms. Two things happen (apparently at random) when I try to activate AIOWPS. I get either “page not found” for WP-admin or any other page within the admin area, or a “you do not have permissions” error. Sure seems like AIOWPS is starting up already defaulted to locking out/hiding the admin area – why I wondered if some settings are stored in another folder, or an .htaccess file someplace. They seem to crop up in several directories; I think I have renamed all but the one in public_html, which reads:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Hi @ctenos you might like to read through this URL to help you to totally remove the plugin and then reinstall it again.

Kind regards

If you have enabled the rename login page feature then as soon as you activate the AIOWPS plugin that feature will kick in.
I suggest you log in to PHPMyAdmin and go to the “options” table and delete the following row:
aio_wp_security_configs

This will clear all configuration for AIOWPS.

Then try activating the plugin again you should be fine.

Thanks to mbrsolution for that link. Didn’t use it this time, but might need it in the future. May be valuable enough to get special attention in the WP Codex?

The PHPMyAdmin edit suggested by wpsolutions WORKED – YES! – THANK YOU!

I marked this topic as resolved. One last question, which may not be answerable as I didn’t save the deleted “options” line: Any idea which setting might have caused the problem? I will now activate many of the AIOWPS features, and wonder if there are any that might be most likely to have caused the issue. However, now that there’s a quick fix, I’m not worried.

THANKS AGAIN – what a great community of users and authors!

Easy to restore blacklist, too. Probably obvious to people in the know, but perhaps useful for relative beginners like me:

From a backed-up .htaccess file, copy the whole list of entries that looked like this

Deny from 110.80.77.105
Deny from 110.89.0.0/16
Deny from 113.119.53.0/24

into WordPad. Use global replace (Ctrl + H) to remove “Deny from ” throughout. Replace all “0/16” and “0/24” with “*”. Selectively replace all “.0” with “.*. Then copy whole list and past into Blacklist Manager IP address window. It will warn of any formatting errors or extra lines.