EWWW says that webp is missing, but it’s there

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(@maxity)

I’m getting this message from EWWW on the plugins page:

EWWW Image Optimizer uses open-source tools to enable free mode, but your server is missing these: webp.

I checked the FAQ for that, which says that happens because of missing bundled files in wp-content/ewww/. That’s the content on my server and cwebp is there:

$ ls -la wp-content/ewww/
total 3792
drwxr-xr-x  3 x03_54 x03_54    4096 Aug  5  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 x03_54 x03_54    4096 Oct 13 16:21 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 x03_54 x03_54 1295964 Aug  5  2021 cwebp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 x03_54 x03_54  954205 Aug  5  2021 gifsicle
-rw-r--r--  1 x03_54 x03_54  779632 Aug  5  2021 jpegtran
drwxr-xr-x  2 x03_54 x03_54    4096 Jul 29 12:13 lazy
-rwxr-xr-x  1 x03_54 x03_54  835099 Aug  5  2021 optipng

Any idea what else I could do to fix this?

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Plugin Support adamewww
(@adamewww)

3 years, 8 months ago

Hi maxity,

That is odd…I would check this document, though I am assuming this is what you were referring to, there are fixes outlined here: https://docs.ewww.io/article/6-the-plugin-says-i-m-missing-something

Have you verified the permissions on the folder? Have you tried removing it and re-adding it?

Plugin Support adamewww
(@adamewww)

3 years, 7 months ago

As I haven’t heard anything back regarding this, I’m hoping you were able to get it fixed.

Thread Starter maxity
(@maxity)

3 years, 7 months ago

Thanks for asking. I checked the docs and the file permissions, everything was as it should be. I didn’t change anything, but then a few days later the warning about the missing webp script suddenly disappeared and webp images are created again. Maybe an update or something.

The images are still not delivered to the browser, so right now I’m investigating mod_headers support for my vhosts. At least it doesn’t show up in phpinfo for both my hosting providers, but I’m not sure if it would.

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