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Unable to import theme data wordpress droplet

Posted on June 27, 2019

I have setup wordpress droplet on X.X.X.X. I have setup https using cloudfare.

Whenever I try to install theme I get this error :

An error occurred while fetching file from: https://bestsportsnews.info/wp-content/themes/buzznews/spiderbuzz/demo-import/default/content.xml! Reason: http_request_failed - cURL error 7: Failed to connect to bestsportsnews.info port 443: Connection refused.

I tried sshing into instance and curl -vv https://bestsportsnews.info . But there also I got

curl: (7) Failed to connect to bestsportsnews.info port 443: Connection refused

I checked ufw and it seems 443 is enabled.

To Action From


22/tcp LIMIT Anywhere
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
80/tcp ALLOW Anywhere
22/tcp (v6) LIMIT Anywhere (v6)
443/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
80/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)

Please help me fix this.



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@MattIPv4 , Oh man. That solved it ! Not sure exactly what the issue was.

Hey @bestnerdever,

It looks like the issue you were experiencing has now been resolved as when I make a curl request to https://bestsportsnews.info, it works fine, returning the content of the website. Additionally, if I open the XML file that was failing in my browser, it finds the content correctly.

I’d love to know what the issue was and how you resolved it! - Matt.

Hey @MattIPv4 ,

it doesnt work when executing the same command from the local machine itself.

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