So I have an issue. Everything was working fine on my website except when I had to perform an restore(lost some mail accounts in cPanel).
Now when I started from scratch, I used same Contact Form as before(plugin for WP) and when I set everything right for STMP Server(Easy WP STMP), to redirect my submission from the website to my gmail adress, I get an error.
The error is this: SMTP connect() failed. https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/Troubleshooting
It appears that the only file with php I have is class-phpmailer.php (which is pretty long and I assume has everything in it)
What exactly it's wrong? And I am using my right credentials, pretty much everything used to work just fine, but after I've done a back-up restore and had to upload to a new directory, maybe it has some missing paths? I cannot put the code here as it has over 4000 lines. Here's a link for anyone wondering how it looks like. I've never changed anything, it probably came in with the hosting.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=96016331707954782437
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My boss has tasked me with remaking his business website from the ground up. I'm pretty new to web design and am learning as I go. Our webhost created a WordPress staging site that I can work on while the original site stays up and running. Recently we've encountered a real problem: a very important page on our original (current) website has a filename that includes an ampersand. It loaded perfectly for customers for over a decade, but now suddenly refuses to load, returning a "bad request" error message for any browser we've tried. The page's URL is in this format:
www.example.com/Gems&Rocks.htm
I changed all instances of '&' to 'n' in the HTML code as well as the file names associated with it, and that got the page working again. Problem is, there are hundreds of other pages across the internet that backlink to this important page under its original name. My boss is adamant that I find a way to get the original filename with the ampersand in there so we don't lose business. He thinks this is all my fault, but I did absolutely nothing to change the old website. The webhost's tech tells me he can't do anything about it, and that this emergent problem wasn't caused by anything he did because he hasn't changed anything on the webserver in over a year. He says the '&' is a reserved character and shouldn't have been in the pathname anyway. Nevertheless, our page loaded just fine for many years.
Searching the web has done me no good, it's like I'm the only person in the world who has encountered this problem. But surely someone else has had such a thing happen. So I guess my specific questions are:
Did pages with '&' in their name suddenly stop loading for everyone or just our website?
Is there a way to "trick" our website into loading the page instead of deciding the '&' is a "bad request"?
Can a URL redirector be set up that sends users from "Gems&Rocks.htm" to GemsnRocks.htm?
The "bad request" error comes from your web host's server. If it worked previously, but now shows that error, then something MUST have changed on the server.
It is possible that you might be able to redirect that request. You don't say what server your web host is using. It's likely to be some version of Apache and you probably have .htaccess configuration available to you. One option might be to put something like this in your .htaccess file:
RedirectMatch 301 ^/Gems\&Rocks\.htm$ https://example.com/GemsnRocks.htm
Whether or not that works will depend on the server that you are running on and how it is configured.
Here's the sitch:
I downloaded and installed Wampserver64 and Wordpress 5.2.3
I finally made it to my site, but I can't preview or publish pages with the new Gutenberg or block editor because something is broken! When I edit with the Classic Editor, it's all good.
****Here's not the notice I get from the Site Health Plugin****
The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages.
The REST API call gave the following unexpected result: (404)
Not Found
The requested URL /wordpress/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.39 (Win64) PHP/7.3.5 Server at sitefolder Port 80
I have scoured the internet on how to fix this but so far nada. Help much appreciated!
You have to add index.php after your folder name in the URL in order to make WordPress API work on the localhost.
For example: localhost/trial-wordpress/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/posts
It worked for me.
If you're still working on it try the suggestions from this post: Wordpress REST API (wp-api) 404 Error Even if it's quite old there are some ideas you could try, like switching your permalink structure to sth. other than plain, check mod_rewrite under apache and so on. Classic Editor is not using the REST API, therefore no error.
A little background info...
By far and large the URLs worked perfectly fine. Occasionally either my machine, or the server itself couldn't access the Web Service URL or the Report Manager URL. For the server a restart fixed this, for me I had to reset my winsock which never worked and ended up System Restoring to a working date.
When I say couldn't access I mean getting the "This Page Cannot Be Displayed" message, or the "Please turn on TLS 1.0 etc etc" message.
The last few days the issue is now widespread. Everyone was having issues gettings to the URLs even the server. I figured it may have been some windows updates causing issues so I removed all the updates around the timeframe in which it started and tested and got nothing.
Came back the next day (today) and same issue except the only way to access it is through a hyperlink thats clicked or copy/pasted.
The issue:
If you manually type the URL it will not work. You have to copy and paste the hyperlink from a working page. I used a link to a rendered report and deleted back to /ReportServer and it pulls up the directory. I've never seen something like this happen before.
The Solution:
Apparently you have to type in www. as well
I was so use to skipping that for most pages.
https://analytics.domain.com/ReportServer = fail
https://www.analytics.domain.com/ReportServer = win
I have a website that displays a lot of messages and images, usually through normal HTML tags. We now have a file server where we would like it to be our one stop place to retrieve files and images.
I can create links that allow me to download files from the server but I can't find anyway of displaying the images on the web pages.
To clarify a bit more, our web page is running through a server we'll call SERVER1, and we used to just retreive our files from that server. Now we are still running the website through SERVER1 but want to display images from a different server named FILESERVER.
links like
http://SERVER1/imagedocs/image.jpg used to work but
http://FILESERVER/imagedocs/image.jpg doesn't work
while
file://FILESERVER/imagedocs/image.jpg does work but I believe this is because I have a local connection to the server and will not work if I apply it to the website.
Any clues on what I should be looking for as a solution.
the file:\\ means it's a local file opened by your browser.
There might be various reasons why you can't access stuff that are currently on your server. I will take as granted that the file is actually on your second server, and you havent made a typo ( you can still double check it though, double check the filepath too (( maybe it was ROOT/dir/image.jpg and now it's ROOT/image.jpg)) ). Do you know if your 2nd server is blocking connections perhaps ? Have you succesfully connected to it? i'd suggest you to ping your server adress to see if you got a response, if it does ping, we going to need more infos about the way your server have been set up.
I have a script that loads a php page for variables. There are no problems when the swf is uploaded to the site but when I run it locally, I keep getting "Error opening URL" messages. I'm using absolute pathing and if I paste the URL my script is using in a browser, the correct page opens. This only started happening after the site changed servers. Any ideas what the problem could be? Thanks.
The "Error opening URL" seems to be caused by a number of issues. I have tried to keep track of all the different solutions I have used in the past to fix the problem. Ever time I encounter the "Error opening URL" the solution is different. Hopefully one of these solutions helps you.
I usually find the following solutions on google.
- Make sure crossdomain policy is setup correctly.
- Set a bunch of variables like Security.allowDomain(domainHERE)
- Change publishing setting for your flash file.
- Make sure your connecting to the right url.
Here is what works for me... usually.
1) Make sure you are connecting to the right URL.
Use the full path, don't use relative links. Also, copy and paste the url in your web browser to see if it connects.
You can also use flash.events.HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS to view the HTTP headers but I would recommend you check out solution 5 first. Its a much easier way with more details.
Source: http://www.judahfrangipane.com/blog/2007/02/15/error-2032-stream-error/
2) Put a crossdomain.xml file in the root of your server (usually public_html or www)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM
"http://www.adobe.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*"/>
</cross-domain-policy>
Source:
http://www.senocular.com/pub/adobe/crossdomain/policyfiles.html
3) While editing the flash file, press Ctrl + Shift + F12
Make sure Local playback security is set to Access Network Only.
4) If you are hosting locally using MAMP, WAMP, XAMP or something similar, skip this step. Otherwise, Call your webhost and yell at them ;)
I have hosted with godaddy, hostgator and liquidweb. It seems that all of them have some kind of firewall setup blocking flash from accessing the files you want it to.
Give your host a call, tell them your problem and ask them to whitelist the files you are trying to connect to and you should be good to go.
Remember, everytime you want to connect to a new file, it has to be whitelisted. I always forget this and it takes me 3 hours to figure out why changing the name of my file or moving it messes everything up. :)
5) Use Charles Web Debugging Proxy Program to gather some important information.
I will break this down into a few steps.
Usually for me the "Error opening URL" is due to a coding problem on the site I'm trying to connect to.
Open Charles
Run your flash file
Select the site your flash file tried to connect to in Charles side bar.
View the Response tab near the top.
On the Response tab you should see a few other tabs near the bottom. View the Headers tab.
See what HTTP_Status was returned. Then look search this page to see what that status code means. It will give a somewhat broad definition but it still helps narrow things down.
500 Means a problem with your server... If your server is running fine, then its most likely a code problem.
Then view the Text tab near the bottom of the Response tab. This will show you exactly what that webpage looks like to flash. If your server is in some kind of debug mode where it displays errors, this is where you will see them.
Well I hope this helps someone. I will try to continue to update it with more issues and solutions I run into. This is probably the number one problem I run into with flash. Super annoying!
Crossdomains.xml file possibly?
not really a solution, but a work-around:
before CTRL-ENTER on your .fla, do a CTRL-S
this seems to work about 90% of the time for me
NOTE: I never had this problem until one random day about 6 months ago. Now it plagues most of my old projects, cs4 or cs6.