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How to use the 1-click Wordpress install with the iOS App?

Posted September 8, 2020 451 views
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Hi all,

I wanted a self-hosted Wordpress install, and being a fan of the overall simplicity of DigitalOcean, it being my VPS of choice for a long time, I went for the “1-click Wordpress install”.

I should say, it worked like a charm, and I was up and running very quickly. Kudos!

However, I would also like to have it work with the Wordpress app on my phone. And when I try to add the site, I get an error of the form:

Couldn't connect. Required XML-RPC methods are missing on the server."

I’ve spent some time on this before asking here, having encountered numerous “solutions” on StackOverflow etc that do not work.

So I have to ask a more fundamental question first: is it expected that the app can support the 1-click install? If not, it’s definitely a deal-breaker for me, I don’t want to use the desktop-browser version all the time for creating a new post.

I definitely would like to have DigitalOcean be my one-stop shop for this instead of turning to e.g. Linode, so I hope this confusion gets cleared up.

Much thanks in advance,
Agam

P.S. some things I tried:

  • a2disconf block-xmlrpc and restarting Apache
  • Installing php-xml
  • Installing php-xmlrpc
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  • agamb September 8, 2020
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    Since I can’t edit my question, a couple of points to note:

    1. Another thing I tried was diagnosing by accessing /xmlrpc.php

    2. I haven’t made any changes to firewall, modules or htaccess post-install, this is as “plain and untouched” a state as possible

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ForYourIT September 8, 2020

Hi @agamb ,

The 1-click app should be perfectly fine and probably not the bottleneck here. It just installs all the files, DB’s etc. so you get wordpress running within seconds.
You probably have to take a closer look at firewalls, modules and HTACCESS files to find your issue.

Try going to http://example.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php, your should see a message saying “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.”
Let me know if this helps!
~Bjorn

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  • agamb September 8, 2020

    Thanks, I should note that (will edit my question to take this into account)

    1. I haven’t made any changes to firewall, modules or htaccess post-install, this is as “plain and untouched” a state as possible

    2. I did try the /xmlrpc.php endpoint, and was redirected to the main page instead (i.e. I didn’t get the the message)

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