BackWPUp: Missing or not expected HTTP response headers

Check your BPS Security Log and post any log entries that have to do with BackWPUp. I checked our forum, but did not see any similar issues, but things change constantly in the coding world. Another possibility is that maybe you have added some custom htaccess code to BPS Custom Code that could be causing a problem?

One thing that seems odd is that the Content-Type is not UTF-8

HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:19:47 GMT
Server: Apache
Allow: GET, POST, PUT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=bhscqk2huktg16st441ce6qav5; path=/
Set-Cookie: wptouch_customizer_use=desktop; path=/
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Vary: User-Agent
Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, proxy-revalidate, no-transform
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

I’m having exactly the same problem as bink19th with one of my websites.
After I use “Deactivate Root Folder BulletProof Mode (Default Mode)” my backups are working again. This happened after updating BackWPup to version 3.2.4.

@ikwilhet – I installed and tested BackWPUp and see the Backwpup error and have documented the solution here: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/backwpup-missing-or-not-expected-http-response-headers/

@bink19th or @ikwihet – Please confirm that the solution works. Thanks.

Thread Start Date: 2-16-2016 to 2-17-2016
Current Date: 2-24-2016

AITpro,

I have tested your solution and it worked. Will this somehow be fixed in upcoming releases of your product?

Well technically it is not a problem so nope a change or a “fix” would not be needed. To explain further – most people want to block HEAD Requests, which are typically made by nuisance Bots all day long. So since the majority of people want this and the minority of people want to allow HEAD Requests for plugins like BackWPUp then what you end up with is a “preference” kind of thing. ie 90% of folks want X and 10% want Y. So for the minority of folks who need or want to allow HEAD Requests, they would just use the steps in the forum link that I posted above to allow HEAD Requests on their website. Since the “solution” is now documented in the BPS plugin forum then when someone asks this same question in the future I can just repost the same link above to the BPS forum topic.

@ikwilhet – Oh and thanks for confirming the solution worked. Very much appreciated. ??