rsp7

Happy user here – thank you!

Unfortunately the hosting company came up with the same reply as earlier: make the 301 changes to the htaccess file if you want to redirect the old https links

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by rsp7.

Thanks for your reply and pointing me in the right direction ! I’ve looked it up on the website of my host and it says free SSL when you have web-hosting + domain-name from them.

Because we only kept the domain-name for the first site and stopped the web-hosting i assume SSL will not be included with that. But I’ll send them a mail asking what is possible

I am on shared hosting so what i read in the hosting company reply is that they advice you to have wordpress and plugins updated. No need to disable that setting but there’s always “a certain security risk”.

Thanks for your time & replies David. I will continue to regular backup with Updraftplus. Just as good habit and in case the security risk of popen() ever strikes.

I passed David’s message on and received a reply from the hosting company which says what DNutbourne already said:

The ‘popen’ function can be a security risk if used incorrectly. However, if your site/server security is solid, then this risk should be minimal.

That’s all

Ok thank you both for explaining. I have forwarded your text to the hosting company and will get back here when i hear from them.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by rsp7.

David,

PHP event: code E_WARNING: popen() has been disabled for security reasons (line 1575, wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/class-updraftplus.php)

Is indeed the last line in the log.

After your hint of the source of the problem I found this in the control panel of the hosting company:

” A few php functions are disabled by default for security reasons. We advice only to enable and use these functions when necessary: exec, passthru, shell_exec, system, proc_open, popen”

After turning this option on the backup the error message disappeared and the backup started again.

Strange as i hadn’t changed settings in the control panel or touched that button.

How big is the risk when you leave those functions enabled? Or should i only enable it every time i want to make a backup?

rsp

1.5.7 works again for me in firefox, ie, safari and chrome

thanks for your time and update!

Use the url for the current version and change 1.5.5 into the version you want to go back to and it will download the old version

Ok thanks for checking. I’ve now put RL 1.5.1 back again which is working in FF, IE, Chrome and Safari

A different issue of the plugin or of Firefox/wordpress?

this is my site:

1.53:
works fine in Chrome and Safari.
in Firefox and IE: not opening the lightbox but opening linkpages
disabled all addons in FF and started in safemode but no change in behaviour

Stopped working in 1.52 in Firefox and Chrome. Tried various of the options but none showed any of the lightboxes. Went back to previous version that is working fine

ok thanks for the reply !

So like last time the red arrow kept turning and in the end i stopped the update, deactivated responsive lightbox and updated the plugin within 15sec. Activated it again and that was all …

Any suggestions what to check or what to do if it keeps behaving like this?

It kept spinning last time there was an update.
Then i deactivated the plugin and click on update and it was ready within 5 seconds..