Title: NOSTATE – wpengine
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# NOSTATE – wpengine

 *  Resolved [Ilene Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilenejohnson/)
 * (@ilenejohnson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/)
 * Our host is wepengine.com and we are getting a NOSTATE error when we login. I’m
   not sure if this is something with wpengine or our setup and at this point I 
   don’t know what questions to ask or what to look for.
 * Is this something to do with caching? I would appreciate any ideas about where
   to look or how to attack this problem and debug it. Its vexing.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/saml-20-single-sign-on/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/saml-20-single-sign-on/)

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 *  Plugin Author [ktbartholomew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktbartholomew/)
 * (@ktbartholomew)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430262)
 * WPEngine doesn’t allow arbitrary PHP code to be executed from the plugins directory,
   which is required by the underlying SimpleSAMLPHP library. I started trying to
   troubleshoot this when I was using them once, but ended up just moving on. You
   should be able to get some suggestions from WPEngine’s support team about locations
   on the server where PHP execution is allowed, but you will officially be in unsupported“
   hack” territory at that point!
 *  Thread Starter [Ilene Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilenejohnson/)
 * (@ilenejohnson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430271)
 * I finally got your SAML plugin to work on WPEngine and the “NO STATE” was not
   having to do with WPEngine. It was an error coming back from the site we were
   trying to authenticate on. It just went away one day and we don’t know why.
 * So, could you please explain what the “NO STATE” status even means?
 *  Plugin Author [ktbartholomew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktbartholomew/)
 * (@ktbartholomew)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430272)
 * NOSTATE is coming from SimpleSAMLPHP, see this link:
    [https://code.google.com/p/simplesamlphp/wiki/LostState](https://code.google.com/p/simplesamlphp/wiki/LostState)
 *  Thread Starter [Ilene Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilenejohnson/)
 * (@ilenejohnson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430273)
 * NOW I remember. We had to ask WpEngine to turn off their caching for this plugin.
   That is when it worked.
 * But it will work on WPEngine.
 *  Plugin Author [ktbartholomew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktbartholomew/)
 * (@ktbartholomew)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430274)
 * That sounds about right. Thanks for letting me know!

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 * Last reply from: [ktbartholomew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ktbartholomew/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nostate-wpengine/#post-4430274)
 * Status: resolved