Can’t Enable XML-RPC Posting

  • Resolved lilkeith07

    (@lilkeith07)


    15 years, 9 months ago

    I installed a new version of WordPress on a subdomain (history.keithkeirstead.com). I was going through the options enabling and applying the ones that I wanted. When I got to enabling XML-RPC posting I checked the box and then clicked save changes. This gave me a 404 error. It directs me from /wp_admin/options_writing.php to /wp-admin/options.php and displays an error like a missing blog post. I am able to enable the atom publishing just fine, but not the XML-RPC. Does anybody know how to fix this? Or whats causing the problem? Thanks!

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  • Did this ever get resolved? I’m having the same problem. Enable xml-rpc is checked in wordpress – I also manually checked in the options-writing.php file, in it i find “enable_xmlrpc” checked as “1”.

    I’m using myweblog (mac application). Here’s the error code i’m getting:

    ‘<?xml version=”1.0″?>
    <methodResponse>
    <fault>
    <value>
    <struct>
    <member>
    <name>faultCode</name>
    <value><int>405</int></value>
    </member>
    <member>
    <name>faultString</name>
    <value><string>XML-RPC services are disabled on this blog. An admin user can enable them at https://inpencilmusic.com/wordpress/wp-admin/options-writing.php</string></value&gt;
    </member>
    </struct>
    </value>
    </fault>
    </methodResponse>’

    It says it’s disabled, but I’ve enabled it in wordpress, and also checked manually, no joy!!

    I have an open ticket with my webhost to see if it is a mod_security issue, so will let you know.

    @inpencil
    I don’t think yours is a case of mod_security problems since it did return a valid XML-RPC response. What we need to figure out is why your WP blog would still think XML-RPC has been turned off if you have it enabled in wp-admin. Have you checked the database to see what the option value is? Do you have any caching plugins installed that might be providing stale data?

    @josephscott

    Thanks for the suggestions, strangely, it seems to have fixed itself! I’m not sure what I did, but everything works A-OK now. I did disable a bunch of plug-ins – first try produced no results, but also deleted plugins manually off the server, and maybe that did the trick. Thanks again. Resolved on my end. Hope everyone else gets it up and running.

    Good to hear. May have been a rogue plugin then causing the problem.

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