Password protection alert display

Hello @dsogawa,

This message appears when the plugin fails to access the front end of the website.

It’s likely an issue with your server’s PHP version or the SiteGuard WP Plugin.

You’re running PHP 7.2.31 which reached end-of-life at the end of 2019. WordPress has a minimum requirement of PHP 7.4 or greater which is likely to change soon as PHP 7.4 just reached end-of-life. It’s best to upgrade to PHP 8.

I haven’t tested the SiteGuard WP Plugin but it may be blocking access as well. You can try disabling that plugin or modifying the setting and seeing if that fixes the issue.

Hello steve.
Thank you for your reply.

Sorry about the late reply.

I understand.
Admittedly, I was aware of the PHP version issue as well.

It’s difficult to change the PHP version due to the server I’m using, but I’ll try to verify the SiteGuard WP Plugin issue.

Thank you for your help.

No problem, feel free to reach out if you have any other questions.

I’m also running into this issue and I don’t have any password protection plugins setup:

Whoops! It looks like your website is currently password protected. The free version of Accessibility Checker can only scan live websites. To scan this website for accessibility problems either remove the password protection..

On PHP 7.33, NGINX 1.23.2, WP 5.8.6, curl supported

I’m running the check on my staging sites as I always have and I always used WP 2FA – Two-factor authentication for WordPress plugin.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Lukasz.

@wpfed, is the plugin successfully scanning. PHP 7.33 has reached end-of-life and doesn’t meet WordPress’ minimum requirement of PHP 7.4. You might want to confirm that your server is allowing the PHP file_get_contents function.

@stevejonesdev sorry that was a typo, I have PHP 7.4.33

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Lukasz.

Is the plugin returning any issues?

Odd, the error went away now, I didn’t do anything besides the passage of time haha, maybe some cache issue.

It may have just needed a post to be saved or the page to be refreshed. If you have any other issue feel free to open a new issue.

@stevejonesdev

You might want to confirm that your server is allowing the PHP file_get_contents function.

I used PHP’s file_get_contents function to verify that I could get the contents. (PHP version is 7.2.31, SiteGuard WP Plugin is disabled)

And the following error is displayed and content acquisition failed.

file_get_contents: SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed in…

Therefore, when I changed it to ignore SSL errors, I was able to successfully retrieve the content.

Is the above error related to this issue?

@dsogawa, If you update to version 1.3.9 you can bypass the SSL validation by adding this filter to your functions.php file.

add_filter( 'edac_no_verify_ssl', '__return_true' );

Let me know if that solves the issues you listed above.

@stevejonesdev Thank you for your prompt response.
I will try to verify it later.

@stevejonesdev?

Hello,
Regarding the matter in the title, I was able to solve it with the latest version you updated.
Thank you for your prompt response.
My client is currently using custom posts, and we are considering introducing a paid version.
They seem to like the ease of use of the plugin.

Thank you.

I’m glad the fix worked for you @dsogawa. Yes, the paid version will allow for scanning custom posts types plus many other features such as full site scanning and managing issues at a site wide level. If you have any questions please reach out to us. Thanks!