Title: [Plugin: Better WordPress Minify] 400 Bad Request
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Plugin: Better WordPress Minify] 400 Bad Request
* [willshouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willshouse/)
* (@willshouse)
* [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-400-bad-request/)
* Getting a “400 Bad Request – Please see [http://code.google.com/p/minify/wiki/Debugging](http://code.google.com/p/minify/wiki/Debugging)”
message. There is no help on the plugin’s home page or in the documentation about
errors or how to turn on debugging, which to me looks like it requires Firelogger.
I don’t want to have to use firefox and install firelogger to try and debug this.
Please post some basic instructions on how to debug, or possibly even add the
debugging options into the admin configuration panel. This is supposed to be
the “better” version but I think I’m going back to the vanilla.
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-minify/)
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* Plugin Author [Khang Minh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oddoneout/)
* (@oddoneout)
* [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-400-bad-request/#post-2521083)
* If possible please send me a link to your website and I will see what I can do,
thank you.
* [Caleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crudhunter/)
* (@crudhunter)
* [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-400-bad-request/#post-2521256)
* I am seeing this problem still. Fresh downloaded plugin.
This report was originally
done 6 months ago.
* Is there a version with a fix?
* I sent this earlier on another thread with the same issue, but Re: Login, but
I refreshed this one instead, since it actually has the right subject. 🙂
* [Caleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crudhunter/)
* (@crudhunter)
* [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-400-bad-request/#post-2521257)
* FYI..
* I just figured out what is going on..
* But first, I looked at the two earlier reports about the message.
You probably
know this already, but for the sake of this documentation, I think I should make
it clear how the ‘400 bad request’ appear.
* The Bad request message shows up **instead of** minified CSS, which is why people
complain that the CSS is broken. It is not there.
* For example, when it calls to minimize some of the CSS files, when looking at
the ‘CSS code’ supposedly produced by the BWP minify URL showing in the html,
rather than minified CSS, it instead has this message as its sole content:
* 400 Bad Request
Please see [http://code.google.com/p/minify/wiki/Debugging](http://code.google.com/p/minify/wiki/Debugging).
* This message is from ‘min/builder/index.php’.
* **Solution in my case:**
* Checking around in other logs I found, that it was a conflict with the the cache
plugin, in my case WP Super Cache, using a CDN.
* Along the way, the cache plugin decides to manipulate the CSS/JS URLs calling
on bwp-minify, and redirect them to the CDN, adding another host and directory
prefix.. The ‘400 Bad Request’ was coming from ‘min’, because the directory structure“
over there on the CDN” is not what it expects, now with a prefix added to the
path.
* Adding another filter string to the cache plugin, telling it to stay away from
URLs that has bwp-minify in them fixed it. Now bwp-minify calls stay off the
CDN.
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* Last reply from: [Caleb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crudhunter/)
* Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-better-wordpress-minify-400-bad-request/#post-2521257)
* Status: not resolved