gdanmitchell

More on this. On the Wordfence diagnostics page it indicates that http connections with the wordfence server are OK but that https connections fail. My site does run correctly as an https site.

I disabled the https option and it seems to be starting a scan correctly now.

I’m still getting the Wordfence alert that says I need to update WordPress to 4.9.6 even though I did so yesterday. Wordfence has run automated squick cans in the interim.

When I tried to manually initiate a scan just now it terminated with: “[May 18 08:33:30] Scan terminated with error: There was an error connecting to the Wordfence scanning servers: cURL error 28: connect() timed out!”

I have not had this happen with previous WordPress updates.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by gdanmitchell.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by gdanmitchell.

I eventually resolved my problem by finding and deleting a ton of obsolete files that no longer needed to be on my server. (The site has existed in a variety of forms for well more than a decade, and some of the pre-Wordpress files were part of the problem.)

I’ll give that a try, too.

I’m having a very similar problem. I’m using the free version at this point, and the standard scan setting. It fails during the scan of “additional files”, reporting “Scan interrupted. Scanned 32945 files, 10 plugins, 4 themes, 0 posts, 0 comments and 981272 URLs in 3 hours 1 second.” Then it lists “Scan terminated with error: The scan time limit of 3 hours has been exceeded and the scan will be terminated. This limit can be customized on the options page. Get More Information”

I have been over that page describing the possibly customizations several times, and I still get the failure. The scans had been completing correctly until some weeks ago when I first started having this issue.

The site is a fairly old wordpress installation with quite a few images. I have tried excluding some directories from the scan, made sure that backups are outside of the wordpress folder, played with the various settings that are supposed to help, but the problem persists.

Advice?

Thanks for replying. I’ve checked a number of such things. I have daily backups running, in more than one way, but the problem only occurs on Saturday. So far I haven’t been able to see anything in the server log —?at one point I thought it might be connected to some IPs that appeared to be scanning the entire site, and in some cases I banned them.

In specifically interrupts this one table (wp_posts) within the database, and no others hang.

Dan

I’ve been having a similar problem with the twenty fourteen theme, with several symptoms.

1. On Firefox (for certain, and perhaps others for users who are not logged in) the site does not display using the theme, but instead seems to use the mobile version or something similar.

2. I get frequent (several times a day) W3 Total Cache Error Notifications by email that include: “Unfortunately, an error occurred while creating the minify cache. Please check your settings to ensure your site is working as intended.” This is especially odd since I turned off the minify feature and emptied its cache.

Something is up…

I deleted your code from the htaccess file. Still no go.

Now just get this error: “Error establishing database connection.”

Thanks for the fix.

Same problem here.

Installation fails with the following message: “The plugin sharepress/sharepress.php has been deactivated due to an error: Plugin file does not exist.”

I first tried the update option and encountered the problem. Then I delete the jetpack folder on the host server and reinstalled from scratch. Same problem. I’m now without jetpack on my server. ??

Advice on how to downgrade back to the previous version or a quick fix would be appreciated.