Beware of manual install on media temple – 3.8.1 2.1.1

Note – this was all happening on default 2014 theme. I still haven’t even made it out of WordPress admin…

Input welcome https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/issues/4745

This appears to be a Mediatemple glitch. It’s setting an ajax header when it shouldn’t. Make this change https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/commit/78846adfd06ca09ba3230760fbd8c59ee9e1c537

I have documented this issue and workaround in our list of common issues after updating to WooCommerce 2.1: Permissions error or WooCommerce pages not loading.

I think I found the culprit, for sites on media temple. I went back to media temple and used their 1-click install. I then installed woocommerce and everything was fine – after clicking and configuring for about 30 minutes – I could not replicate my issue that I had on my first install. I noticed in the new install, there is one line of code that is inserted in the .htaccess:

AddHandler php-stable .php

This must have been placed by mt application installer.

In my first install I conducted a manual install of WordPress, and my .htaccess didn’t have this line of code. After I added this line of code in the .htaccess of my first install, everything seems fine and I don’t get the random permission behavior.

Hope this helps…

Fixed rating – woocommerce is a 5 star plugin all day long…

Glad we got this resolved/researched for you and we’ll soon be pushing out the fixed release containing a fix for this. Thanks for updating your review too! ??