Invalid request connecting to client

I just installed mainwp on a subdomain (web-hosted), but having some trouble connecting to the connecting to the child sites. Testing connection > all is good. But when connecting it says “Invalid request”.

Who can help? What should I do to fix this?

(yes I have read the other similair topics)

Below the system-report:


### Server Info                    Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MainWP Dashboard                   
MainWP Dashboard Version           4.1.2.1                                                4.1.2.1                                      Pass        
MainWP Upload Directory            Writable                                               Writable                                     Pass        
MainWP Extensions                  
No installed extensions            
WordPress                          
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  5.5.1                                        Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  256M                                         Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
PHP                                
PHP Version                        >=5.6                                                  7.2.31                                       Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           120                                          Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           60                                           Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 256M                                         Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such fileWarning     
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          60                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.18.1                                               7.52.1                                       Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/0.9.8l                                       OpenSSL/1.0.2u                               Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                YES                                                    
PHP Exif Support                   YES ( V7.2.)                                           
PHP IPTC Support                   YES                                                    
PHP XML Support                    YES                                                    
PHP Disabled Functions             apache_child_terminate, apache_get_modules, apache_note, apache_setenv, closelog, dl, exec, lchgrp, lchown, link, linkinfo, lstat, opcache_reset, openlog, passthru, pclose, pfsockopen, popen, posix_access, posix_ctermid, posix_get_last_error, posix_getcwd, posix_getegid, posix_geteuid, posix_getgid, posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam, posix_getgroups, posix_getlogin, posix_getpgid, posix_getpgrp, posix_getpid, posix_getppid, posix_getpwnam, posix_getpwuid, posix_getrlimit, posix_getsid, posix_getuid, posix_initgroups, posix_isatty, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_mknod, posix_setegid, posix_seteuid, posix_setgid, posix_setpgid, posix_setrlimit, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_strerror, posix_times, posix_ttyname, posix_uname, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, readlink, set_time_limit, shell_exec, symlink, syslog, system, virtual,
PHP Loaded Extensions              Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tip_wh, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib
MySQL                              
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  10.1.46-MariaDB-1~stretch                    Pass        
MySQL Mode                         NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION             
MySQL Client Encoding              utf8                                                   
Server Info                        
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Server Protocol                    HTTP/1.1                                               
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body:                       
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       10.21 MB                                               
Request Time                       1602494668                                             
Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
MainWP Settings                    
Number Of Child Sites              0                                                      
Use WP-Cron                        Yes                                                    
Optimize for Shared Hosting or Big NetworksYes                                                    
Automatic Daily Update             Install trusted updates                                
Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance 365                                                    
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Primary Backup System              Default MainWP Backups                                 
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Maximum simultaneous sync requests                                                        
Minimum simultaneous install/update requests                                                       
Active Plugins                     
Akismet Anti-Spam                  4.1.6                                                  Active                                       
MainWP Dashboard                   4.1.2.1                                                Active                                       
Wordfence Security                 7.4.11                                                 Inactive                                     
WPS Hide Login                     1.5.7                                                  Active                                       

I would like to add that I now upgrade the PHP vesion to 7.4. But now when adding a new site I get the following error:

Warning: openssl_pkey_export(): cannot get key from parameter 1 in /subdomains/mainwp/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/pages/page-mainwp-server-information-handler.php on line 216

I re-installed everything, but now just getting the “invalid request” error. Please help.


### Server Info                    Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MainWP Dashboard                   
MainWP Dashboard Version           4.1.2.1                                                4.1.2.1                                      Pass        
MainWP Upload Directory            Writable                                               Writable                                     Pass        
MainWP Extensions                  
No installed extensions            
WordPress                          
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  5.5.1                                        Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  256M                                         Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
PHP                                
PHP Version                        >=5.6                                                  7.4.6                                        Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           120                                          Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           60                                           Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 256M                                         Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directoryWarning     
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          60                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.18.1                                               7.52.1                                       Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/0.9.8l                                       OpenSSL/1.0.2u                               Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                YES                                                    
PHP Exif Support                   YES ( V7.4.)                                           
PHP IPTC Support                   YES                                                    
PHP XML Support                    YES                                                    
PHP Disabled Functions             apache_child_terminate, apache_get_modules, apache_note, apache_setenv, closelog, dl, exec, lchgrp, lchown, link, linkinfo, lstat, opcache_reset, openlog, passthru, pclose, pfsockopen, popen, posix_access, posix_ctermid, posix_get_last_error, posix_getcwd, posix_getegid, posix_geteuid, posix_getgid, posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam, posix_getgroups, posix_getlogin, posix_getpgid, posix_getpgrp, posix_getpid, posix_getppid, posix_getpwnam, posix_getpwuid, posix_getrlimit, posix_getsid, posix_getuid, posix_initgroups, posix_isatty, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_mknod, posix_setegid, posix_seteuid, posix_setgid, posix_setpgid, posix_setrlimit, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_strerror, posix_times, posix_ttyname, posix_uname, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, readlink, set_time_limit, shell_exec, symlink, syslog, system, virtual,
PHP Loaded Extensions              Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tip_wh, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib
MySQL                              
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  10.1.46-MariaDB-1~stretch                    Pass        
MySQL Mode                         NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION             
MySQL Client Encoding              utf8                                                   
Server Info                        
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Server Protocol                    HTTP/1.1                                               
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body:                       
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       8.64 MB                                                
Request Time                       1602507233                                             
Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
MainWP Settings                    
Number Of Child Sites              0                                                      
Use WP-Cron                        Yes                                                    
Optimize for Shared Hosting or Big NetworksYes                                                    
Automatic Daily Update             Install trusted updates                                
Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance 365                                                    
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Primary Backup System              Default MainWP Backups                                 
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Maximum simultaneous sync requests                                                        
Minimum simultaneous install/update requests                                                       
Active Plugins                     
Akismet Anti-Spam                  4.1.6                                                  Active                                       
Hello Dolly                        1.7.2                                                  Inactive                                     
MainWP Dashboard                   4.1.2.1                                                Active                                       

Hi @cireknilb, Please check the solution from here: Can't connect a single site - #4 by bogdan

Let me know how that goes

Hello Bogdan,

The solution you point out is for local hosted, correct? Anyhow I did ask the hosting company (TransIP), but they say it is not possible to give the path of the openssl.cnf file on shared webhosting.

Any other solution you can suggest?

@bogdan Would be great if we could get in touch and solve this problem. thnx!

Yes, the solution that I have sent is for localhost environments but it is fully applicable on web-hosted servers where the same error occurs.

I have seen a few hosts that don’t want to provide the location of the openssl.cnf file, but I don’t know why they do that.

At this point, I believe that the best possible solution is to put your MainWP Dashboard site on a different host. Is that an option for you?

@bogdan No that is not an option for me. Is there any way I can find out the path of the openssl.cnf file myself?

@bogdan I found out the location by add phpinfo.php. I used the location in MainWP, but that did not solve the problem. Maybe it is something else?

It’s more than likely that the location is not correct.

Can you try to get the file from here:

and place it somewhere on your server than enter correct path to it?

@bogdan

I placed it in separate folder and enter the path: /ssl/openssl.cnf. But unfortunately I still don’t get it to work.

Below you can see the updated system report:


### Server Info                    Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MainWP Dashboard                   
MainWP Dashboard Version           4.1.2.1                                                4.1.2.1                                      Pass        
MainWP Upload Directory            Writable                                               Writable                                     Pass        
MainWP Extensions                  
No installed extensions            
WordPress                          
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  5.5.1                                        Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  256M                                         Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
PHP                                
PHP Version                        >=5.6                                                  7.4.6                                        Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           120                                          Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           60                                           Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 256M                                         Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directoryWarning     
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          60                                           Warning     
cURL Version                       >=7.18.1                                               7.52.1                                       Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/0.9.8l                                       OpenSSL/1.0.2u                               Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                YES                                                    
PHP Exif Support                   YES ( V7.4.)                                           
PHP IPTC Support                   YES                                                    
PHP XML Support                    YES                                                    
PHP Disabled Functions             apache_child_terminate, apache_get_modules, apache_note, apache_setenv, closelog, dl, exec, lchgrp, lchown, link, linkinfo, lstat, opcache_reset, openlog, passthru, pclose, pfsockopen, popen, posix_access, posix_ctermid, posix_get_last_error, posix_getcwd, posix_getegid, posix_geteuid, posix_getgid, posix_getgrgid, posix_getgrnam, posix_getgroups, posix_getlogin, posix_getpgid, posix_getpgrp, posix_getpid, posix_getppid, posix_getpwnam, posix_getpwuid, posix_getrlimit, posix_getsid, posix_getuid, posix_initgroups, posix_isatty, posix_kill, posix_mkfifo, posix_mknod, posix_setegid, posix_seteuid, posix_setgid, posix_setpgid, posix_setrlimit, posix_setsid, posix_setuid, posix_strerror, posix_times, posix_ttyname, posix_uname, proc_close, proc_get_status, proc_nice, proc_open, proc_terminate, readlink, set_time_limit, shell_exec, symlink, syslog, system, virtual,
PHP Loaded Extensions              Core, PDO, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, Zend OPcache, bcmath, bz2, calendar, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, ftp, gd, gettext, hash, iconv, imap, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, posix, pspell, session, soap, sockets, sqlite3, standard, tidy, tip_wh, tokenizer, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, zlib
MySQL                              
MySQL Version                      >=5.0                                                  10.1.46-MariaDB-1~stretch                    Pass        
MySQL Mode                         NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION             
MySQL Client Encoding              utf8                                                   
Server Info                        
Server Software                    Apache                                                 
Operating System                   Linux                                                  
Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Server Protocol                    HTTP/1.1                                               
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body:                       
User Agent                         Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       8.41 MB                                                
Request Time                       1602746882                                             
Accept Content                     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Charset Content             N/A                                                    
MainWP Settings                    
Number Of Child Sites              0                                                      
Use WP-Cron                        Yes                                                    
Optimize for Shared Hosting or Big NetworksYes                                                    
Automatic Daily Update             Install trusted updates                                
Abandoned Plugins/Themes Tolerance 365                                                    
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Primary Backup System              Default MainWP Backups                                 
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Maximum simultaneous sync requests                                                        
Minimum simultaneous install/update requests                                                       
Active Plugins                     
Akismet Anti-Spam                  4.1.6                                                  Inactive                                     
Hello Dolly                        1.7.2                                                  Inactive                                     
MainWP Dashboard                   4.1.2.1                                                Active                                       
Really Simple SSL                  3.3.5                                                  Inactive                                     

Do I need to edit the file? Does it has something to do with that I installed it on a subdomain?

is this the full path? /ssl/openssl.cnf

For example, if you put it into your WP root directory, go to the Status page on your MainWP Dashobard to see the root directory path and just add openss.cnf to it.

@bogdan Thanks, it seems to be working now. Great support!

Hi Eric, I am very happy to see that the problem is solved!

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