s2member-o.php getting a 404!!!

My s2member paypal-pro-form page broke randomly, and no updates were made to the code or settings!

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By viewing the console you will see that the browser is receiving a 404 NOT FOUND on the following 2 includes:

/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_js_w_globals=1&qcABC=1&ver=121213-121213-4122272444

AND

/wp-content/plugins/s2member/s2member-o.php?ws_plugin__s2member_css=1&qcABC=1&ver=121213-121213-4122272444

I have NO IDEA why this is happening. I’ve checked the CHMOD read permissions on this file and it looks normal (644). I even deleted this file and re-uploaded from a virgin s2member plugin zip.

If you navigate directly to this file it loads the default wordpress 404 page. The .htaccess rewrite rules are standard and haven’t been modified. They check for file exist case before rewriting, as it should.

SUPER CONFUSED. PLEASE HELP!

SOLVED!

Looks like it was a folder permissions issue after all! Seems that wp-content NEEDS to be 755 and nothing else! Any other permission hex would break the site.

Look no further for the solution. Make sure your folder permissions are correct!

What has strange that other files inside this folder would load, but not the s2member-o.php

God and linux gurus only know why.

Thanks for reporting this important issue.

Yes, I’ve seen this before. Some web hosts (servers), are configured NOT to allow PHP scripts to run from directories with 777 permissions. This is for added security. You might be able to serve static files from these directories, but accessing a PHP script will cause the server to trigger an error.

Solution: Set permissions to 755 (recommended) on all parent directories.

FYI: HostGator™ is known to do this.