Title: [Jetpack Setup] Cannot connect to wordpress.com
Last modified: February 26, 2021

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# [Jetpack Setup] Cannot connect to wordpress.com

 *  Resolved [stylezman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stylezman/)
 * (@stylezman)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-setup-cannot-connect-to-wordpress-com/)
 * Hi, I already tried enough of the steps, that are written down in the documentation
   etc.
    I still get the error, that my page can’t connect to wordpress->.com<- 
   while the site health tells me that it could been improved, but wordpress->.org
   <- connection is working.(The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your
   site [http://www.cult-of-devil.eu](http://www.cult-of-devil.eu) [HTTP 500]. Ask
   your web host if they allow connections from WordPress.com. If you need further
   assistance, contact Jetpack Support: [http://jetpack.com/support/](http://jetpack.com/support/))
   All I have done is setting up a FreeBSD, installing apache24, php80, mariadb105-
   server. Although I still encounter some problems while installing things, since
   I did not install all php80 plugins, only the ones that I need, there could be
   a problem in php.ini since I use production-state of it, and it’s BSD, not hack-
   everything-u-want-linux. Therefore I need more details, which plugins of php80
   are needed to be installed, especially since I encountered a problem with the
   filter function & phpmailer, after installing php80-filter, and restarting apache24,
   it did not tell me the phpmailer error again. Also the xmlrpc states what it 
   should.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fjetpack-setup-cannot-connect-to-wordpress-com%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [stylezman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stylezman/)
 * (@stylezman)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-setup-cannot-connect-to-wordpress-com/#post-14109550)
 * I just searched the web more and more, and came up to create a .htaccess file
   that permits the connection to the xmlrpc.php file
    <FilesMatch “^(xmlrpc\.php)”
   > Order Deny,Allow # Whitelist Jetpack/ Automattic CIDR IP Address Blocks Allow
   from 192.0.64.0/18 Allow from 209.15.0.0/16 Allow from 66.155.0.0/17 Allow from
   wordpress.com Allow from 45.56.2.139 Deny from all </FilesMatch>
 * that made it working.

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 * Last reply from: [stylezman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stylezman/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-setup-cannot-connect-to-wordpress-com/#post-14109550)
 * Status: resolved