I have been having issues with updating Toolset plugins on a number of sites that are all on the same hosting. They seem to be timing out with the message : Download failed. (Forbidden)
This has been happening for over a year now and recently I had my host SIteGround have a look at this and they suggested bouncing it back to Toolset support.
I can do a plugin upload overwrite but it is cumbersome and time consuming with our slow internet here.
The connection test passes, so all good there. The log shows that subscription-fetching is working ok but that the attempts to download with the arguments, download/link/key/domain are failing (forbidden).
I also tried the updates with all plugins off and the default TwentyTwentyThree theme applied and still no joy.
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We have enabled the debug mode and checked some logs related to the compatibility between Toolset and php 8:
PHP Deprecated: Return type of WPV_Settings::offsetExists($offset) should either be compatible with ArrayAccess::offsetExists(mixed $offset): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/plugins/toolset-blocks/embedded/inc/wpv-settings.class.php on line 375
We've thought that by updating Blocks manually, the issue would be solved, but unfortunately it didn't happen. Then, we also updated Types manually - still the 'forbbiden' message appears if we try to install another Toolset plugin.
My suspicion is that it could be server related. Therefore, do you allow us to migrate the website to a copy version hosted in our servers? Further, if you're able to get the http server error logs with the SG support, it would be very helpful.
Please let us know about these matters. Thank you.
The only errors in the SG dashboard are the following but I don't think that they relate to Toolset. I had a chat with support and they pointed me to the php_errorlog file in public_html. I am not sure if that is any good to you but you should be able to access it.
Would it have anything to do with php variables, memory, timeout etc?
2023-03-27 15:39:53 UTC [apache][authz_core:error] [pid 15477] [client 144.91.75.156:12136] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/index.php
2023-03-26 02:57:08 UTC [apache][authz_core:error] [pid 9743] [client 192.9.143.134:12136] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/index.php
2023-03-24 10:42:59 UTC [apache][authz_core:error] [pid 22652] [client 2a05:e880:1000::87a:45f9:12136] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/index.php, referer hidden link
2023-03-24 10:42:59 UTC [apache][authz_core:error] [pid 22652] [client 2a05:e880:1000::87a:45f9:12136] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Index.php, referer hidden link
2023-03-24 04:49:59 UTC [apache][authz_core:error] [pid 96381] [client 138.2.237.251:12136] AH01630: client denied by server configuration: /home/customer/www/vaughanprint.com/public_html/wp-content/index.php
In case you come to log in to my site this morning and haven't taken a duplicate yet, apologies. I had to intervene and roll back my site to two days ago. I had an issue where any item in my custom post type for Prints was not rendering the featured image, past mid 2016. As an artist, it is crucial that these images in my catalogue are viewable to the public.
This happened before, a number of months ago. I am not 100% sure what cause this. It could be Cloudflare related? SiteGround used to integrate a free Cluoldflare subscription up until six months ago and then removed this in favour of their own CDN. They left us the option to keep the connection to Cloudflare but with responsibility left to us… Some suspicion there.
But…
I just replied the Types update again and the same thing happened, all posts after mid 2016, the featured image doesn't render? I can't remember if this coincided with updates; Toolset, other plugins or WordPress updates?
If you have any insight into this, much appreciated.
Ok, I've rolled back again and restored back to everything up to date sans latest Toolset plugins. I'll leave for a few days and see if the issue reoccurs, apply updates to see if it triggers the same thing again.
Indeed, the logs do not seem related to Toolset, perhaps they have something to do with the last issue you brought (about the featured images). But honestly, I can't tell for sure, we would have to debug it further.
About the original problem of this ticket, should we also wait for your feedback, or can we continue checking it? I'm marking your next answer as private again, if you want to provide a new login info.
I'm seeing the same issues on the local install, no featured images for many of the posts of type print. Possibly related to the WordPress. 6.2 update?
In order for us to take a closer look at this issue, I'd like your help creating a package of your website and sending it to us.
Please use the plugin Duplicator(hidden link) to create a full copy of your website so we can take a look at it and see what's causing the issue with the large table.
If you come across problems while creating it, please feel free to ignore(exclude from the backup) both uploads and cache folders.
I'm enabling the proper field for your to share this copy, you'll see it on your next response.
Alternatively, you may use any file sharing service that you prefer and share the link in the ticket(your next response is being marked as private, only you and I have access to it).
I got to the bottom of my featured images disappearing on most of my posts.
A bit of a shooting oneself in the foot situation here. A while ago I set up a subscriber user for testing a feature. For the life of me I don't know how I managed it (or even why WordPress allowed it to happen) but the new user had the exact profile as my main admin account. Anyway the upshot is when I went to prepare your user access I decided that I should get rid of the subscriber and opted not to merge in content attached to it. Because it was using the same profile as admin, it obviously decided to delete a fair amount of the featured images. I went back again to a known working backup and this time merged the deleted users content into my own admin account. Sorted.
Apologies again for the confusion.
At this stage I have updated everything on my site.
A few things regarding the the issue updating Toolset plugins. On the local install they did update through the normal procedure. Duplicator installer did flag some files to remove, prior to this, which I duly removed on the local install. I am not sure these have had anything to do with preventing updates. These files were as follows:
In wp-contents • .htacces .php.ini
In wp-includes. • .htaccess
I am not sure about the .htaccess files but from comparing with other installs of WordPress the php.ini file in wp-content looks like it might be out of place.
Ultimately if it isn't any of the above I think the problem is hosting/server related and I might nee to get onto SiteGround support again.
I won't do the Duplicator package as our internet her is dreadfully slow for update but if you want to open a private message again next Monday to gain access and use my install of Duplicator to get a backup of the site to examine locally, please do so.
