Cant login to the dashboard

I am trying to log in to the dashboard and this error came

Your server had a problem connecting to WPMU DEV: “cURL error 28: Operation

timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received”. Please try again.

If this problem continues, please contact your host with this error message

and ask:

*”Is php on my server properly configured to be able to contact

https://wpmudev.com/api/dashboard/v1/

<https://wpmudev.com/api/dashboard/v1/&gt; with a POST HTTP request

via fsockopen or CURL?”*

I contacted the hosting and this is what they told me

root@aws.goalivemedia.com [public_html]# cat file.php

<?php

if(function_exists(‘fsockopen’:wink:) {

echo “fsockopen function is enabled”;

}else {

echo “fsockopen is not enabled”;

}

?>

root@aws.goalivemedia.com [public_html]# php file.php

fsockopen function is enabled

root@aws.goatail -n3 error_log

[01-Aug-2017 21:06:25 UTC] [WPMUDEV API Error] 4.2.1 | cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received ((unknown URL) [500])

[01-Aug-2017 22:06:26 UTC] [WPMUDEV API Error] 4.3.2 | cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received ((unknown URL) [500])

[01-Aug-2017 23:06:41 UTC] [WPMUDEV API Error] 4.3.2 | cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received ((unknown URL) [500])

root@aws.goalivemedia.com [public_html]# curl -IL https://wpmudev.com/api/dashboard/v1/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:30:58 GMT

Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

Connection: keep-alive

Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d3363ac04af16ed3da524ebe1279f17261501630257; expires=Wed, 01-Aug-18 23:30:57 GMT; path=/; domain=.wpmudev.org; HttpOnly

X-Robots-Tag: noindex

Link: <https://wpmudev.com/api/&gt;; rel=”https://api.w.org/&#8221;

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

Access-Control-Expose-Headers: X-WP-Total, X-WP-TotalPages

Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization, Content-Type

Allow: GET

Content-Security-Policy: default-src https: data: wss: blob: ‘unsafe-eval’ ‘unsafe-inline’

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

Server: cloudflare-nginx

CF-RAY: 387c96973c8e7906-LAX

The error appears to stem from the URL it’s trying to curl being unknown, the server can certainly connect via curl though. I also tried updating the max_execution_time to 300 just to see if this would change anything, it unfortunately did not.

So let me know how to get this resolved and help me use the dashboard and unlock the plugins

  • Predrag Dubajic
    • Support

    Hi Rakesh,

    We had some unusually high load yesterday but it should be back in normal now so can you try again please?

    If you’re still unable to connect check with your host if they have any SERVFAILS cached and to clear those before giving it another go.

    Let us know how it goes.

    Best regards,

    Predrag

  • PG
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi guys,

    I’m having the same problem today, I’m on wpengine, all seems to be ok on their side. I’m getting timeout errors everytime I click on the dashboard plugin:

    [WPMUDEV API Error] 4.3.2 | cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received ((unknown URL) [500])

    Any suggestions?

    Please and thanks!

  • PG
    • Design Lord, Child of Thor

    Hi Adam,

    Thanks for your quick reply!

    I tried a few things:

    – deleted and reinstalled the dashboard plugin, (when it’s not installed -> the admin loads fast and no errors, but when installed -> very very slow);

    – re-set the wpmudev API

    – cleared cache on wpengine as well as on cloudflare;

    – tested is on staging and same problem: I’m getting error on wpengine and also getting this message when try to login:

    ****Your server had a problem connecting to WPMU DEV: “cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received”. Please try again.

    If this problem continues, please contact your host with this error message and ask:

    “Is php on my server properly configured to be able to contact https://wpmudev.com/api/dashboard/v1/ with a POST HTTP request via fsockopen or CURL?”*****

    – even if I manage to login, I still get this error on the server:

    [WPMUDEV API Error] 4.3.2 | cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 15001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received ((unknown URL) [500])

    Should I try logging in and giving you access to my staging site?

  • Dimitris Kalliris
    • Support Team Lead

    Hey there ingenio,

    hope you’re doing good today and don’t mind me jump in here! :slight_smile:

    There were some changes made in our end, so at least latest WPMUDEV Dashboard version (4.3.2) should connect successfully now.

    Have you made to connect with your WPMUDEV credentials until now? Please advise!

    Also, please don’t reset your WPMUDEV API key, as long as it isn’t being compromised. It doesn’t make any change actually for connecting your our services, on the contrary, it initializes lots of background procedures in our end, that may make things even slower for your WPMUDEV Dashboard plugin (at least for some time after resetting).

    If this is continuing for you, please share some more server details of the staging environment. As this is public forum, you should send us your details through our safe contact form https://wpmudev.com/contact/#i-have-a-different-question using this template:

    Subject: “Attn: Dimitris

    – WordPress admin (login url/username/password)

    – FTP credentials (host/username/password)

    – IP address of your server, to double check that’s not blocked from our end (https://wpengine.com/support/find-ip/)

    – link back to this thread for reference

    – any other relevant urls

    Keep in mind the subject line as ensures that it gets assigned to me.

    Warm regards,

    Dimitris