(apparently) SSL related weird error on Old WP installation

  • Resolved Alejandro J. Sanchez P.

    (@elpanda13gmailcom)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hello!

    I’ve been having a problem that has been cracking my skull for over 2 weeks now. i don’t have much info on the site because it’s my client’s BUT i do know that the wordpress installation is very old/outdated and so is their server VPS running CentOS 3 and php 2.0 i believe), but i really doubt the problem has to do with the server because it worked fine before.

    The problem seems to be SSL related since it shows the typical signs of a non configured SSL certificate on a site (it seems to lack CSS loading so the site is all HTML. it looks “broken”). Now, the weirdest part of this error is that it disappears completely after once logs in. i tested it on different browsers (mozilla, explorer, safari and chrome) and it shows broken on every single one until i log in on 1 browser. after that, if i reload the site in every browser, it just “magically” fixes itself.

    it shows this on the java console When broken, though:

    Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSE
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

    and the files shown are plugins (live VC Add-on and CF7) but they show an HTTPS address instead of an HTTP.

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  • Borge

    (@joeborge0914)

    Try add this on your Functions.php of your theme.

    $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] = false;

    Maybe this is caused by your Chrome Version 44+.

    Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=505268

    Thread Starter Alejandro J. Sanchez P.

    (@elpanda13gmailcom)

    I do have chrome 51, but it also happened on safari, explorer and firefox so i doubt it’s the chrome error i’ve been reading about in a few forum threads.

    I added that code to my functions.php file before i wrote the thread and i’m waiting for the problem to present itself again (for some reason it goes away when i log in, but it reappears after a few days, when everybody’s logged out for a while) in the meantimes i wanted to check or confirm if it was indeed an ssl certificate problem.

    Thread Starter Alejandro J. Sanchez P.

    (@elpanda13gmailcom)

    I manage to solve the issue, it turns out wordfence was doing something weird and caused the whole problem. i initially discarded it because i had even deleted it and the problem still remained BUT it also turns out that wordfence leaves a cached pages folder in your server even after deletion so, i had to delete it to actually KNOW that was causing the problem.

    I believe my client or somebody working for him updated the plugin (probably by mistake) and it caused problems because the wordpress install (and its server) is WAY too old (php 3, CentOS 3 and wordpress 4.2) for this new version to work.

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