Started with trying to add Yoast SEO to my wordpress and during the initial setup I was getting the error: An error has occurred: Cannot read properties of null (reading ‘json’)
Googling around suggested running “Site Health” and here is the result:
Several 403 permission areas appeared and after further digging a possible fix is connecting with an FTP client and correcting permissions. It was recommended to select the top level directory and set everything to 755 and then set all files to 644. I started going through this process but aftyer letting it run for a long time I noticed it was just showing messages in the log like this:
Status: Setting permissions of ‘/squig.net/htdocs/wp-admin/images’ to ‘755’
Command: SITE CHMOD 755 images
Response: 550 Could not change perms on images
I only have the one admin account and that’s the one I used to authenticate to the ftp. Any ideas what I need to do to get everything correct again?
Those errors are expected on free hosting, it’s basically saying that the external automated server cannot reach IFs server, which is intentional design. In theory this should not be problem, but I don’t know how the plugin actually works.
And changing permissions on files is blocked on free hosting for this exact reason, messing with file permissions when they are not the problem causes more harm than good.
I think you’re misunderstanding, I’m not here trying to bypass any built-in security measures. I am a novice with Wordpress and simply asking the forum if there were other things to look at that could be causing this issue.
