Title: Upgraded – WSOD – timeout errors (CSF?) Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Upgraded – WSOD – timeout errors (CSF?) * [codewordcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lingocode/) * (@lingocode) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-wsod-timeout-errors-csf/) * Hi, * Background: I’ve had a fair bit of trouble with slowloris attacks on my server so recently installed CSF firewall, which stopped the attacks. I *did* notice that the WP admin panel seemed to be running a bit slowly, but no other problems. * Main problem: I performed a manual upgrade of my new-ish site because it kept saying on the dashboard that it was up-to-date, but I knew it wasn’t. (I am now worrying the problem was actually due to port blocking on CSF – I have CT-Limit set to 60 and certain countries can only access port 80, and a few other things…) The first upgrade seemed to not work properly, because I kept getting errors on the lines of “/htdocs/wp-includes/functions.php on line 1282” – relating to wp_cache. It turned out that file had not been replaced for some reason… so I renamed admin and includes and re-uploaded fresh copies. I also deactivated the plug-ins and switched the theme via phpmyadmin. * That allowed me to get to the dashboard, but I still have a white screen of death on the main site and a load of errors are now showing up in the admin panel ( I guess also because I enabled them to show). * I tried to install a plugin to trace the problem, but got the following load of errors: * > **Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://api.wordpress. > org:443 (Connection timed out) in /var/www/vhosts/(mysite)/htdocs/wp-includes/ > class-http.php on line 1021** > Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress. > org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please > try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection > to WordPress.org. Please contact your server administrator.) in /var/www/vhosts/( > mysite)/htdocs/wp-includes/update.php on line 302 > Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to tcp://api.wordpress.org: > 80 (Connection timed out) in /var/www/vhosts/(mysite)/htdocs/wp-includes/class- > http.php on line 1021 > Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://api.wordpress.org: > 443 (Connection timed out) in /var/www/vhosts/(mysite)/htdocs/wp-includes/class- > http.php on line 1021 > Warning: An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress. > org or this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please > try the support forums. (WordPress could not establish a secure connection > to WordPress.org. Please contact your server administrator.) in /var/www/vhosts/( > mysite)/htdocs/wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php on line 83 > Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to tcp://api.wordpress.org: > 80 (Connection timed out) in /var/www/vhosts/(mysite)/htdocs/wp-includes/class- > http.php on line 1021 > An unexpected error occurred. Something may be wrong with WordPress.org or > this server’s configuration. If you continue to have problems, please try the > support forums. * I do have a recent backup of the database – but the probably not the entire file structure, although that’s less of an issue. But I’d still be left with the problem of not being able to upgrade. The wp-content part has not been messed with. * Any hints? Don’t like asking for help but I’m wondering if this has something to do with CSF configurations (perhaps I need to whitelist something?), and now also confused as to what I need to do to get the main site working again… * Thanks in advance… * Site is “rose newell dot co dot uk”, by the way. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [codewordcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lingocode/) * (@lingocode) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-wsod-timeout-errors-csf/#post-6658024) * I also tried a fresh install with the same database – as modified by the installation. Is it possible it got messed up? Or CSF got in the way? I also tried deactivating CSF but if WP-related IPs got blocked… * Thread Starter [codewordcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lingocode/) * (@lingocode) * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-wsod-timeout-errors-csf/#post-6658052) * Okay – I worked out the problem – it’s CSF. * It’s not a huge problem for me to deactivate CSF for the few minutes when I’m making major changes to the site. It seems to have fallen out with WordPress. I could flush the IP tables or something but for now, I think temporary deactivation is the best solution. * Another weird symptom: I was able to click to change my theme, but it would not actually confirm. It also stopped FTP from working. * It will have to do with the port and country blocking setup I had on CSF. I had blocked ports for a number of countries because I thought me and my server won’t be there – but of course, sometimes there is a legitimate reason why a US-based server, for example, will be accessing something other than port 80. 🙂 * I’d still like to hear about any better explanations and solutions people may have, though! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Upgraded – WSOD – timeout errors (CSF?)’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [CSF](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/csf/) * [firewall](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/firewall/) * [timeout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timeout/) * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/) * [white screen](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/white-screen/) * [white screen of death](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/white-screen-of-death/) * [WSOD](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wsod/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [codewordcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lingocode/) * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/upgraded-wsod-timeout-errors-csf/#post-6658052) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics