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#1 2014-01-27 16:36:14

castanet
Member
From: Oxford
Registered: 2005-03-19
Posts: 97

Problem trying to connect to RPC server

Hi all
Upgraded to 4.5.5 yesterday and in the diagnostics got the pre-flight check warning: There is a problem trying to connect to the RPC server. Please, try again later.
I left it hoping it would go away but it’s still there. Any help gratefully received.

Diagnostic info

Textpattern version: 4.5.5 (r5575)
Last update: 2014-01-26 17:00:15/2014-01-26 16:55:23
Document root: /home/www/mydomain.com
$path_to_site: /home/www/mydomain.com
Textpattern path: /home/www/mydomain.com/textpattern
Permanent link mode: section_title
Temporary directory path: /home/www/mydomain.com/textpattern/tmp
Site URL: www.mydomain.com
PHP version: 5.4.21
GD Graphics Library: bundled (2.1.0 compatible); supported formats: GIF, JPG, PNG.
Server TZ: UTC
Server local time: 2014-01-27 16:25:22
DST enabled?: 0
Automatically adjust DST setting?: 0
Time zone: Europe/London (0)
MySQL: 5.5.11
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Server: Apache mod_fcgid/2.3.7 mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3
PHP server API: cgi-fcgi
RFC 2616 headers: 0
Server OS: Linux 3.10.25-xeon-hst
Active plugins: glx_hl_current-0.3, zem_contact_reborn-4.0.3.20, zem_contact_lang-4.0.3.6, pap_contact_cleaner-0.1, upm_img_popper-1.3.7m, upm_image-0.6.2, rss_admin_db_manager-4.3
Admin-side theme: classic 4.5.5

Pre-flight check:
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There is a problem trying to connect to the RPC server. Please, try again later.
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.htaccess file contents:
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#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
#ErrorDocument 403 default

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$ RewriteRule .* – [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>

#php_value register_globals 0

  1. SVG
    AddType image/svg+xml svg svgz
    AddEncoding gzip svgz

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Charset (default/config): latin1/utf8
character_set_client: utf8
character_set_connection: utf8
character_set_database: utf8
character_set_filesystem: binary
character_set_results: utf8
character_set_server: utf8
character_set_system: utf8
character_sets_dir: /services/mysql-mul/share/charsets/
17 Tables: OK

10 Custom fields: custom_1, custom_2, custom_3, custom_4, custom_5, custom_6, custom_7, custom_8, custom_9, custom_10 (10)

PHP extensions: Core/5.4.21, date/5.4.21, ereg, libxml, openssl, pcre, sqlite3/0.7, zlib/2.0, bcmath, calendar, ctype, curl, dom/20031129, hash/1.0, fileinfo/1.0.5, filter/0.11.0, ftp, gd, gettext, SPL/0.2, iconv, session, json/1.2.1, mbstring, mcrypt, mysql/1.0, standard/5.4.21, PDO/1.0.4dev, mysqlnd/mysqlnd 5.0.10 – 20111026 – $Id: e707c415db32080b3752b232487a435ee0372157 $, pdo_pgsql/1.0.2, pdo_sqlite/1.0.1, pgsql, Phar/2.0.1, posix, Reflection/$Id: c4a7c554f00da47fe9cff384d18c532a1a959dff $, imap, SimpleXML/0.1, soap, pdo_mysql/1.0.2, exif/1.4 $Id$, tidy/2.0, tokenizer/0.1, xml, xmlreader/0.1, xmlwriter/0.1, xsl/0.1, zip/1.11.0, mysqli/0.1, cgi-fcgi, mhash

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)

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#2 2014-01-28 11:34:24

gaekwad
Server grease monkey
From: People's Republic of Cornwall
Registered: 2005-11-19
Posts: 4,134
GitHub

Re: Problem trying to connect to RPC server

Hi David – is your hosting provider preventing RPC and/or outbound connections from your server? I ask because this happened recently – it may be worth checking with your hosting provider.

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#3 2014-01-28 12:34:39

castanet
Member
From: Oxford
Registered: 2005-03-19
Posts: 97

Re: Problem trying to connect to RPC server

Well the problem has now gone but I’m not sure why. I couldn’t see any denied outgoing connections on the server, but deactivated it anyway.
Under ModSecurity there was this ‘detected attack’:

2014-01-28 01:47:51.128602 ModSecurity: 62.201.220.200 Access denied with code 412 (phase 2). Pattern match “^-[abcdnrsw]” at QUERY_STRING. [file “/services/mod_security-rules/99_asl_jitp.conf”] [line “71”] [id “378491”] [rev “6”] [msg “Atomicorp.com WAF Rules – Virtual Just In Time Patch: Possible Attempt to Exploit PHP CGI command injection vulnerablity”] [severity “CRITICAL”] [uri “ [hostname “www.mydomain.com”]”]/

Maybe no connection. Anyway, problem solved. Thanks

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