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I've installed the Wordpress app from the Digital Ocean marketplace and want to enable xml-rpc to use with the Wordpress app (through JetPack), which requires the xml-rpc endpoint. But I'm having trouble with figuring out how they have disabled that.

The relevant php-modules seems to be installed:

# apt list php*xmlrpc
Listing... Done
php-xmlrpc/bionic,now 1:7.2+60ubuntu1 all [installed]
php7.2-xmlrpc/bionic-updates,bionic-security,now 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 amd64 [installed,automatic]

I've got a feeling that the problem is with the .htaccess (below), but I'm not very well versed in that and can't seem to understand what directives takes precedence when using .htaccess.

Furthermore I've tried - shortly - to remove the .htaccess completely and restarting apache without it and that didn't help.

Default .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Any ideas or experience with this?

kresten
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    AFAIK the xmlrpc interface of WordPress does not need the PHP xmlrpc module. And the functionality is enabled by default in WordPress. You should be able to use it without doing anything. – Gerald Schneider Apr 16 '19 at 05:45
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    Hi @GeraldSchneider, Digital Ocean [explicitly states](https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/wordpress) that they've disabled xml-rpc, but does not say how... – kresten Apr 16 '19 at 05:53
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    You really should have a chat with Digital Ocean about their setup. – Michael Hampton Apr 16 '19 at 06:03
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    Most probably they disabled it with [WordPress methods](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/disable-xml-rpc/trunk/disable-xml-rpc.php). – Gerald Schneider Apr 16 '19 at 06:06
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    "I've got a feeling that the problem is with the .htaccess" - Just for the record... this has nothing to do with the `.htaccess` file you posted. – MrWhite Apr 16 '19 at 07:32
  • Thanks, @MrWhite. I'll cross that off the list then. :) – kresten Apr 16 '19 at 07:49
  • Yeah, @MichaelHampton, I'm trying that too. But at first they reported my forum post as spam and after they unblocked it it's not generating any answers... – kresten Apr 16 '19 at 07:51
  • @GeraldSchneider Do you have any idea where I'd find something like that? There's no plugin with any mention of xml-rpc... – kresten Apr 16 '19 at 07:58
  • FWIW: asked this at the DigitalOcean forums: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-use-the-1-click-wordpress-install-with-the-ios-app – agam Sep 08 '20 at 07:16

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To disable the xml-rpc.php block in the Wordpress one-click image at DigitalOcean, run these commands over SSH/console:

a2disconf block-xmlrpc
systemctl reload apache2

That should have you taken care of.

Jarland Donnell
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  • Yep, that was it! Thanks a bunch. :) – kresten Apr 16 '19 at 18:12
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    After running these, I still get the same error from the wordpress iOS app, "Couldn't connect. Required XML-RPC methods are missing on the server." – Adam Grant Sep 07 '19 at 07:04
  • Similar situation as @AdamGrant, tried this (i.e. `a2disconf ...` and reload) and still get the same error! – agam Sep 04 '20 at 21:19