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So I had to move my testing to a VM with Ubuntu 15.04 installed, but it’s identical to the box I was initially testing on other than the fact its a VM.

I was able to add a PHP repository that had close to the latest version of PHP 5.6. It got me to version 5.6.10, but unfortunately it didn’t solve the rename issue.

Downgrading Ubuntu 15.04 to PHP 5.5 is proving more difficult than I thought. While I was able to get the main PHP 5.5 package installed, all of the other modules that apache and mysql require are based off PHP 5.6. I’m pretty sure it invalidates anything I test because when I run php -v it still shows as 5.6.4. Testing with this hybrid environment still leaves me with the 404 error in any case.

I’m going to see if there’s a cleaner way i can get the entire PHP 5.5 environment on Ubuntu 15.04, but at this point it seems unlikely as Ubuntu has adopted PHP 5.6 as its stable base for this release. Even if this does fix it, I’m not sure I’d want to run this hack in production, but I’ll continue on to make sure this is actually the cause.

I haven’t had time to dig further into the issue yet, but since you brought up php. My old server is running Ubuntu 14.04 and has PHP 5.5.9 installed. The new server that’s experiencing the issue is on Ubuntu 15.10 with PHP 5.6.4 installed.

Does your plugin support PHP 5.6? I have a feeling if I try uninstalling PHP 5.6 and installing 5.5 that it might fix the issue.

I’m not a super experienced programmer or anything, but I think I can dig further into this now that you’ve pointed me in the right direction. Let me see what I can find out and I’ll check in with you if I get any leads.

Its the Ubuntu Apache 404

Twenty Fifteen

I tried changing the rename setting to “nowords” and still got the 404 with that and wp-admin.

When I go to the test site main page and hover over the “Log in” link it does correctly point to https://myurl.com/nowords but I still get the 404 when I click on it.

I should note that the only thing I enabled in Simple Firewall was Login Protection and the only setting I changed was the Rename “wp-login.php” setting to eliminate any possible conflicts.

As stated above, this is a fresh install of wordpress. I just unzipped the latest download and created a new database on a brand new server. Simple Firewall is the only plugin that is active.

Akismet and Hello Dolly which come with wordpress are installed but they are not active.

I have the URL set to logintest. When I have it set, I can’t reach the admin page via wp-login.php or logintest. I get “Not Found” 404 pages for both.

Using forceoff works and allows me back in. I confirmed I have the correct URL. As soon as I delete the rename setting and re-enable Simple Firewall, I can login with wp-admin again.

I created a brand new site from the latest wordpress download and the only plugin I installed was Simple Firewall.

After changing the Permalinks setting to Post Name, it created a .htaccess file in the root directory that’s writable by the apache user.

Here is the content:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

There were no errors or warnings during either cloning process. The site seems to work fine and all of the permalinks are good so not sure why this issue is popping up.

Hi Nobita,

I’m so sorry for wasting your time. To test I tried re-cloning my Prod site with Duplicator and the Customize page fails to load on both 1.302 and 1.303 versions.

I still am not sure what the issue is but it’s not isolated to the newest version of raindrops. I am able to bring up the customize page when I switch themes though. I’ll continue to research and see if I can find the cause.

I switched back to the parent raindrops theme and disabled all of my plugins. It hangs with or without the code you provided above. Right now I’m testing on my dev site which isn’t accessible by internet, but I can open it up temporarily if you need to do some testing.

I know what you mean about a child theme’s customize page taking a long time to load but this one seems to hang forever. I get the left side frame that says You are customizing “Site Name” and the top menu bar with Basic Config and Preview Width but there’s no options on the left side and there’s just a spinning wheel where the page preview should be.

On my Prod site with raindrops version 1.302 and a child theme, the customize page loads pretty fast. My Dev site is a newly made clone so shouldn’t be much difference from the Prod site.

I tried adding that code into my functions.php but it still just hangs. I tried stripping everything out of the functions.php file except the code above and it hangs as well. Not sure if this issue is isolated to me or possibly theres a conflict with a plugin I have installed.

Thanks nobita! Works great!

Problem solved