Title: Feedback: wouldn't run when cloudflare/https active
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Feedback: wouldn't run when cloudflare/https active

 *  [steveroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveroot/)
 * (@steveroot)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wouldnt-run-when-cloudflarehttps-active/)
 * Hi, A little feedback for a problem that took me an hour to work through. Hopefully
   this will save someone else some time.
 * tl;dr
    —- If nothing seems to be happening, turn off cloudflare (connect direct)
   and make sure you don’t have a https connection when using this plugin
 * Details
    ——- Running search/replace resulted in a grey bar and no activity. I
   couldn’t see activity on the server (eg: i expected a long running query and 
   mysqld being busy, or activity from php).
 * In order to fault find, I disabled cloudflare (DNS pass through, as oppossed 
   to via their cloud) and set it to development mode. This still didn’t work, though
   I did notice; I was still getting the https site (this only works via cloudflare)
   and the server logs showed my connections as still via cloudflare.
 * Then, I connected my computer directly to my wordpress by editing /etc/hosts 
   to override any DNS config and used a new browser (i think the cloudflare https
   works by telling the browser to keep all future connections to the domain via
   https). Having done this, everything worked perfectly..
 * So, there’s something odd about this plugin + https and/or cloudflare, but I 
   can’t tell any more than that.
 * System data in case its useful:
    (nb: I reduced max page size from default as
   part of my fault finding, probably the default was fine).
 * ### Begin System Info ###
 * — WordPress Configuration
 * Site URL: —-
    Home URL: —- Multisite: No Version: 4.3.1 Language: en_GB Table
   Prefix: Length: 3 WP_DEBUG: Disabled Memory Limit: 40M
 * — Better Search Replace Configuration
 * Plugin Version: 1.2.6
    Max Page Size: 10000
 * — Server Configuration
 * Operating System: Linux
    PHP Version: 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13 MySQL Version: 5.5.44
   Server Software: nginx/1.8.0
 * — PHP Configuration
 * Safe Mode: Disabled
    Memory Limit: 256M Post Max Size: 20M Upload Max Filesize:
   25M Time Limit: 30 Max Input Vars: 1000 Display Errors: N/A
 * — WordPress Active Plugins
 * About.me Widget: 1.1.6
    Better Search Replace: 1.2.6 CloudFlare: 1.3.19 Google
   Analytics by Yoast: 5.4.6 Wordfence Security: 6.0.20 WordPress Importer: 0.6.1
   WP Mail From II: 1.1
 * — WordPress Inactive Plugins
 * Akismet: 3.1.5
    Hello Dolly: 1.6
 * ### End System Info ###
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Matt Shaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattshaw/)
 * (@mattshaw)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wouldnt-run-when-cloudflarehttps-active/#post-6757092)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for reporting this. The issue definitely isn’t with HTTPS, as it’s been
   tested with that a bunch. I will try to test with Cloudflare and see if that 
   could be interfering somehow.
 *  Thread Starter [steveroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveroot/)
 * (@steveroot)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wouldnt-run-when-cloudflarehttps-active/#post-6757100)
 * If you can’t recreate it, feel free to ask me to try again and let me know where
   any log/debug output will be.

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 * Last reply from: [steveroot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveroot/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feedback-wouldnt-run-when-cloudflarehttps-active/#post-6757100)
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