I tried to login to my WordPress blog using WordPress for Andoroid, but I received the following error:
I tried to fix this issue for a long time, but it took a long time to find the solution for it. There was no problem with logging in to the wordpress.com blogs, and I could even logging into my alternative blog installed on my Bluehost web server without any problem. There are a number of causes for it, but I could make it work by installing the correct version of xml and xmlrpc module that runs my WordPress engine.
Finding the Root Cause
The following listing is the application log from WordPress for Android:
01 - WordPress.onCreate
02 - App comes from background
03 - ConnectionChangeReceiver.setEnabled true
04 - Connection status changed, isConnected=true
...
13 - No documented SNI support on Android <4.2, trying with reflection
14 - Established TLSv1.2 connection with www.cheonghyun.com using TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
15 - No HTTP error document document from the server
16 - system.listMethods failed on: https://www.cheonghyun.com/xmlrpc.php - exception: HTTP status code: 500 was returned. Internal Server Error
17 - StackTrace: org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCException: HTTP status code: 500 was returned. Internal Server Error
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient$Caller.callXMLRPC(XMLRPCClient.java:547)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient$Caller.access$000(XMLRPCClient.java:430)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient.call(XMLRPCClient.java:231)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient.call(XMLRPCClient.java:226)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.doSystemListMethodsXMLRPC(XMLRPCUtils.java:96)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.checkXMLRPCEndpointValidity(XMLRPCUtils.java:203)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.verifyXmlrpcUrl(XMLRPCUtils.java:291)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.verifyOrDiscoverXmlRpcUrl(XMLRPCUtils.java:250)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.accounts.helpers.FetchBlogListWPOrg$FetchBlogListTask.doInBackground(FetchBlogListWPOrg.java:55)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.accounts.helpers.FetchBlogListWPOrg$FetchBlogListTask.doInBackground(FetchBlogListWPOrg.java:35)
at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
...
26 - The XML-RPC endpoint was not found by using our 'smart' cleaning approach. Time to start the Endpoint discovery process
27 - The app will call the RSD discovery process on the following URLs: [https://www.cheonghyun.com]
28 - Downloading the HTML content at the following URL: https://www.cheonghyun.com
29 - RSD endpoint found at the following address: https://www.cheonghyun.com/xmlrpc.php?rsd
30 - Downloading the RSD document...
31 - Extracting the XML-RPC Endpoint address from the RSD document
32 - Found the XML-RPC endpoint in the HTML document!!!
33 - Trying system.listMethods on the following URL: https://www.cheonghyun.com/xmlrpc.php
34 - No documented SNI support on Android <4.2, trying with reflection
35 - Established TLSv1.2 connection with www.cheonghyun.com using TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
36 - No HTTP error document document from the server
37 - system.listMethods failed on: https://www.cheonghyun.com/xmlrpc.php - exception: HTTP status code: 500 was returned. Internal Server Error
38 - StackTrace: org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCException: HTTP status code: 500 was returned. Internal Server Error
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient$Caller.callXMLRPC(XMLRPCClient.java:547)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient$Caller.access$000(XMLRPCClient.java:430)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient.call(XMLRPCClient.java:231)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCClient.call(XMLRPCClient.java:226)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.doSystemListMethodsXMLRPC(XMLRPCUtils.java:96)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.checkXMLRPCEndpointValidity(XMLRPCUtils.java:203)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.discoverSelfHostedXmlrpcUrl(XMLRPCUtils.java:393)
at org.xmlrpc.android.XMLRPCUtils.verifyOrDiscoverXmlRpcUrl(XMLRPCUtils.java:257)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.accounts.helpers.FetchBlogListWPOrg$FetchBlogListTask.doInBackground(FetchBlogListWPOrg.java:55)
at org.wordpress.android.ui.accounts.helpers.FetchBlogListWPOrg$FetchBlogListTask.doInBackground(FetchBlogListWPOrg.java:35)
at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:287)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1076)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:569)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:856)
...
The application log tells that the engine causes an internal server error (500) while loading xmlrpc.php. To find out the detail, I looked into the error.log from Apache Engine. We can acquire error.log from /var/log/apache2/error.log on Ubuntu.
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403764 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function xml_parser_create() in /var/www/html_main/wp-includes/class-IXR.php on line 264
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403882 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP Stack trace:
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403896 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 1. {main}() /var/www/html_main/xmlrpc.php:0
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403913 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 2. wp_xmlrpc_server->serve_request() /var/www/xmlrpc.php:84
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403922 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 3. IXR_Server->IXR_Server() /var/www/wp-includes/class-wp-xmlrpc-server.php:197
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403930 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 4. IXR_Server->__construct() /var/www/wp-includes/class-IXR.php:440
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403938 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 5. IXR_Server->serve() /var/www/wp-includes/class-IXR.php:432
[Sun Oct 16 23:29:00.403945 2016] [:error] [pid 2200] [client CLIENT_IP:PORT] PHP 6. IXR_Message->parse() /var/www/wp-includes/class-IXR.php:464
According to the stack trace of error.log, the engine causes an error on processing messages and related functions.
Solution
Install the correct version of xml and xmlrpc Apache2 Module
As I stated in the beginning, I solved the login issue by installing the correct version of xml and xmlrpc module. The command line is as follows:
sudo apt-get install php5.6-xml
sudo apt-get install php5.6-xmlrpc
sudo service apache2 restart
The installation commands above depends on the php version and .htaccess configuration you are using. You can find out the current php version by creating a simple php file on your web server with the following script. Please note that the php version you installed on Apache engine and the version that you are currently using can be different.
If the php version is 5.6, you can use the installation command above to solve it. (As mentioned above, you can use php -v to find out the php version from the web server engine, but the php version you are actually using can be different by .htaccess configuration or others. Therefore, checking version using php file may be more accurate than checking the php engine version.)
Reinstalling xml, xmlrpc
Some websites stated that they solved the login issue by reinstalling xml and xmlrpc modules [1, 2]. You can check the installed modules by using “php -m”.
[PHP Modules]
calendar
Core
ctype
date
...
tokenizer
wddx
xdebug
xml
xmlreader
xmlrpc
xmlwriter
zlib
If there is no xml or xmlrpc module in the list, install the module using the following command:
sudo apt-get install php-xml
sudo apt-get install php-xmlrpc
If the problem persists, reinstall the module using the following command:
sudo apt-get purge php-xml
sudo apt-get purge php-xmlrpc
.htaccess Accesss Right and PHP Version
The problem could be the access right of xmlrpc.php [3]. If this was the cause, your server would return 403 Forbidden error, rather than I mentioned above. Please modify .htaccess as follows:
<Files xmlrpc.php>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Files>
Sometimes the problem could be the php version; you can modify the php version you wish to use by creating .htaccess file as follows (php 5.6):
# Use PHP5.6 as default
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php56 .php
References
[1] Alexander, “Fixing Errors «Jetpack: site_inaccessible,» zakharovlx.com, 08-Apr-2016. [Online]. Available: https://zakharovlx.com/category/dev/wordpress/.
[2] http://tecfused.com/, “PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function xml_parser_create(),” tecfused.com, 08-Sep-2016. [Online]. Available: http://www.tecfused.com/2016/09/php-fatal-error-uncaught-error-call-undefined-function-xml_parser_create/.
[3] JigmeDatse, “[Resolved] The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 500],” WordPress.org, 22-Sep-2016. [Online]. Available: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the-jetpack-server-was-unable-to-communicate-with-your-site-http-500/.
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