So thanks to a very kind user I realized I created an annoying issue in multi-site installations with 3.0.8 so here is Better WP Security 3.0.9 which fixes that issue and a few others.
Better WP Security 3.0.9
March 8th, 2012 10 Comments
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Chris is the owner of Bit51 where he blogs about web development and works on WordPress plugins such as Better WP Security. In addition Chris is a Senior Developer for Springbox in Austin, TX where he develops a host of solutions for clients large and small.
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This update makes a Internal Server Error 500..
Del. the .htaccess and this is no Error again.. but uploaded a clear file with name .htaccess, Internal Server Error 500 again.
please fix this fast..
Inside-Games
3.0.10 crashed my feed and identified some error on wpincludes plugin.php that never appeared before. Sigh.
Hi,
I’ve been using old version of this great plugin but I’ve just installed latest version (3.0.11) on a website and used “one click” button and website crashed. Now I am getting 500 Internal Server Error. I’ve checked .htaccess but there is no BWPS code there.. Any idea how to fix it?
oh i see my permalink is crashed (missed .htaccess)..
i del. this update & load a older version of better wp…
and now i wait for a update that fixed the Error
Thanks for the report! I’ve fixed that error in 3.0.11. Funny, 3.0.10 is the first release I’ve been able to get volunteer testers for too. ARGH.
I’ve not seen any problems with .htaccess. do you still have the contents you can email to info@bit51.com so I might found out where the offending line was?
Chris,
Thanks for the info. I just updated to 3.0.11 and all seems fine.
Thanks Kevin. Glad to hear it.
Please submit your issue to the support forums (along with the logs of what is causing the error) and we will get it sorted out.
Hi Chris,
I had the same problem with .htaccess. After applying basic protection, site returned 500 error.
Apache configtest was not showing any problems. But error log of protected site got “.htaccess: order not allowed here” messages.
After commenting out directives at .htaccess i.e.:
#
# Order allow,deny
# Deny from all
#
the site got back with proper protection but without restrictions mentioned in .
So first I’ve moved directives to virtual host configuration in httpd.conf and checked if site is still worked. So the the problem was in definition of what directives could be overloaded in .htaccess.
In my case it was
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
in virtual host configuration. After changing it to
AllowOverride All
the problem caused error 500 disappeared.