Title: BackWPup Error: Not expected HTTP response:Status-Code: 429 Last modified: April 14, 2020 --- # BackWPup Error: Not expected HTTP response:Status-Code: 429 * Resolved [chikmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chikmedia/) * (@chikmedia) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/) * I am trying to run a back up on a site, but cannot get the BackWPup plugin to start. I followed the instructions to set up a new job and whenever I try to manually run it gives me the error message stating it didn’t respond for 10 seconds. Once I get more info, it says Not expected HTTP response:Status-Code: 429. * I found this solution: modify wp-config.php (you can find this file in your root directory ), and before the line: /* That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging.*/ add this line: define(‘ALTERNATE_WP_CRON’ , true ); * Followed those steps and it still won’t run. I tried clearing my cache, logging out and back in, using a new browsers, waiting a couple of hours for fun, and nothing has worked. Does anyone have any alternative suggestions? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * (@duongcuong96) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/#post-12683634) * Hi [@chikmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chikmedia/) hmm weird, normally it should work, Please show me your server configuration by going to BackWPUp- > Settings -> Infomation -> and press “Get debug info” TY! * [tomkhughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomkhughes/) * (@tomkhughes) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/#post-12715999) * I am having the exact same problem * Not expected HTTP response:Status-Code: 429 Server: openresty Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:51:34 GMT Content-length: 0 Accept-ranges: bytes Age: 0 Vary: User- Agent X-cache: uncached X-cache-hit: MISS X-backend: all_requests Strict-transport- security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains * **DEBUG INFO ** * WordPress version: 5.4 BackWPup version: 3.7.1 PHP version: 7.3.12 (64bit) MySQL version: 5.7.26-29-log cURL version: 7.45.0 cURL SSL version: OpenSSL/1.0.1e WP-Cron url: [https://vimby.com/wp-cron.php](https://vimby.com/wp-cron.php) Server self connect: Not expected HTTP response: Status-Code: 429 Server: openresty Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:51:34 GMT Content-length: 0 Accept-ranges: bytes Age: 0 Vary: User-Agent X-cache: uncached X-cache-hit: MISS X-backend: all_requests Strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains * Document root: /var/www Temp folder: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-350783- temp/ Log folder: /var/www/wp-content/uploads/backwpup-350783-logs/ Server: Apache Operating System: Linux PHP SAPI: cgi-fcgi Current PHP user: root Maximum execution time: 300 seconds BackWPup maximum script execution time: 30 seconds Alternative WP Cron: Off Disabled WP Cron: Off CHMOD Dir: 453 Server Time: 18:51 Blog Time: 18:51 Blog Timezone: Blog Time offset: 0 hours Blog language: en-US MySQL Client encoding: utf8mb4 PHP Memory limit: 256M WP memory limit: 128M WP maximum memory limit: 256M Memory in use: 2.00 MB Loaded PHP Extensions:: Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, apc, apcu, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dba, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, igbinary, imagick, json, libxml, mbstring, mcrypt, memcache, mysql, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcntl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, readline, session, shmop, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, xsl, yaml, zip, zlib * [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * (@duongcuong96) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/#post-12720796) * [@tomkhughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomkhughes/) please contact your hoster and ask why the wp-cron loopback connection return the following: * ``` WP-Cron url: https://vimby.com/wp-cron.php Server self connect: Not expected HTTP response: Status-Code: 429 Server: openresty Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:51:34 GMT Content-length: 0 Accept-ranges: bytes Age: 0 Vary: User-Agent X-cache: uncached X-cache-hit: MISS X-backend: all_requests Strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains ``` * and they should fix it for you, hope that help and looking forward to hearing a new response from you hoster ^^ * [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * (@duongcuong96) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/#post-12803494) * [@tomkhughes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomkhughes/) since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to mark it as resolved. If you’re still having problems, feel free to let us know ;), Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘BackWPup Error: Not expected HTTP response:Status-Code: 429’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/backwpup/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3236141) * [BackWPup – WordPress Backup & Restore Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backwpup/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backwpup/reviews/) ## Tags * [back-up](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/back-up/) * 4 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [happyAnt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duongcuong96/) * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/backwpup-error-not-expected-http-responsestatus-code-429/#post-12803494) * Status: resolved