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#39573 Remote CRON backup not working with 8.002

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Environment Information

WordPress version
6.3.1
PHP version
8.1.16
Akeeba Backup version
8.002

Latest post by nicholas on Wednesday, 04 October 2023 05:38 CDT

Wednesday, 04 October 2023 03:43 CDT

jba1969

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 10MiB, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

 

Remote Backup via Frontend CRON does not work since 8.0 and does NOT work either with 8.002.

After updating from 8.001 to 8.002 the profiles were LOST again!!

Reconfiguration again :-(

And remote CRON backup does NOT work, even if I renewed the secret key, which I tried 2 times.

There is always the error message: 

403 Operation not permitted

and the relevant option is set correctly:

Enable Legacy Front-end Backup API (remote CRON jobs) = YES

I also tried to enable JSON API = YES, but same error message.

Please inform me via email when this issue is fixed.
I am currently very pissed due to this 8.0 bug, I sent you a dedicated email about it earlier this morning.

I don't need any warm words, nor blaming game againt wordpress or any other arguments.
I just need a working plugin, thats all.

Thank you in advance for your investigation.
Joachim

Wednesday, 04 October 2023 03:43 CDT

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The ticket information has been edited by Joachim B. Auster (jba1969).

Wednesday, 04 October 2023 05:38 CDT

nicholas

Since you are going through all that trouble, just do this:

  • Keep a copy of the wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/Solo/secretkey.php file
  • Delete the wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/Solo folder
  • Upload version 7.9.2 
  • Copy the file you kept a copy of into wp-content/plugins/akeebabackupwp/app/Solo/engine/secretkey.php

WordPress is totally unreliable for any kind of major updates. We are pulling version 8 for now and we'll see what to do about it. It will definitely be a manual update and we are definitely NOT going to ever support WordPress plugin destroyer ever again.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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