modifoo

I’m sure those are great tools, but require much more knowledge (and maybe server access) than I — and arguably most WP users — have.

Having the option of re-installing all plug-ins would have eradicated my last hacker attack at once. Instead I had to search through all files to find the offending added content.

Could it be possible to have a plug-in for WP that does that: e-mail me whenever a file is changed?

It might be connected to this plug-in:

https://www.groenveld.de/blog/post-readers-wp-plugin/

Would like to second this request.

My database is about 12mb in total size, of which about 11mb stem from wp_post_counter_time

Fixed the 403 issue, there was a strange rewrite rule in .htaccess

Alas, my server still gets hit with the wp-cron.php requests.

Anyone here to help???

Hmm… been doing a bit more of searching and trying.

Turns out when I try to access wp-cron.php directly, I get a 403 error – even though the permissions are set to 755. Weirder still, if I delete wp-cron, I still get a 403, and not a 404.

On my other domains I don’t get any error messages at all.

So – how do I fix the permissions? Or is that something that is wrong with the .htaccess?

Otto?

Anyone?

Still running today:

64.13.205.47 – – [27/Nov/2008:03:03:44 -0800] “GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0” 200 – “-” “-”

I just had a look at my log, and all the wp-cron requests get a 200:

64.13.205.47 – – [17/Nov/2008:02:01:06 -0800] “GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0” 200 – “-” “-“
64.13.205.47 – – [17/Nov/2008:02:01:24 -0800] “GET /modifoo.com/wp-cron.php?check=750f6724adfde56a416052cbd28a0f3f HTTP/1.0” 200 – “-” “-”

All subsequent requests come from the same IP address and have the same check= number.

Any help is greatly appeciated!

Otto et al.

How do I change the .htaccess file?

The only reference I could find stated

<files wp-cron.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</files>

Is that correct?
And how do I find out which IP I should use? Or is 127.0.0.1 universal for intern? or can I use the actual domain name?

Great work – any chance of a release?

SOLVED:

Dane Morgan offers a temporary fix on his website:

https://danemorgan.com/popularity-contest-temp-fix-download-for-popular-in-category-feature/24/

Thanks Otto.

While figuring out how to do this fix, I came across this comment by Dane Morgan. Turns out I am not the only one with this problem and Alex’ plug-in:

For the akpc_most_popular_in_cat() problem I have found a solution. I’m guessing it’s a MySQL version issue.

Throughout the plugin code there are queries similar to:

$posts = mysql_query(”
SELECT p.ID
FROM $wpdb->posts p
LEFT JOIN $wpdb->ak_popularity pop
ON p.ID = pop.post_id

By deleting the ‘p’ from each occurance of ‘$wpdb->posts p’

and changing each occurance of ‘p.COLUMN_ID’ to ‘$wpdb->posts.COLUMN_ID’

I was able to get the most popular by category function to work. Everything else seems to continue working as well.

Does that look like a safe fix, or should one not do it. (As in: I do not know anything about SQL and do not want to mess with my database)

OK, I found the problem: Link

Thanks for your help!

Now that you ask, I realize that I stopped receiving any comments since I have moved servers & domain name about 2 weeks ago. So it seems likely that it has something to do with this. How can I troubleshoot this?

I can post without trouble. But I – and no one else – can comment.

Again, thanks for help!