transport error – HTTP status code was not 200 (401) – on host

Hi,

Sounds like your target environment (production) is protected by e.g. basic auth. Is that the case?

Alright, are you sending content from your production environment to your content stage?

Normally it’s the other way around, but whatever works for you is fine.

What you probably have to do is to include an Authorization header when making a request to the environment protected by Basic Auth.

Here is an example of doing that, add it to e.g. functions.php:

function set_content_staging_client_headers( $headers ) {

	if ( defined( 'CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_USER' ) && defined( 'CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD' ) ) {
		$headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic ' . base64_encode( CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_USER . ':' . CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD );
	}

	return $headers;
}

add_filter( 'sme_client_headers', 'set_content_staging_client_headers' );

Then in your configuration file (wp-config.php) on the host that is NOT Basic Auth protected, add the constants:

define( 'CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_USER', '_YOUR_BA_USERNAME_HERE' );
define( 'CONTENT_STAGING_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD', '_YOUR_BA_PASSWORD_HERE' );

Probably something worth including in the plugin, but for now I hope this helps!