Title: xmlrpc.php and Windows Live Writer Error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # xmlrpc.php and Windows Live Writer Error * [heathology](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heathj85/) * (@heathj85) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/) * I use Windows Live Writer to write posts to my blog. However, today I cannot publish any new posts using any desktop client. I keep getting errors such as the one below (Windows Live Writer): * Error attempting to connect to blog at: * [http://www.castingthenet.net/xmlrpc.php](http://www.castingthenet.net/xmlrpc.php) * Found: Moved Temporarily * I’ve made sure that the xmlrpc option under Writing is check in my WordPress options settings. The xmlrpc.php file permission settings are currently “744”. * I’ve read on several threads that it could be a PHP 5 issue, but this was working for me all last week. Surely something didn’t change on PHP 5 in a few days time. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [Joseph Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephscott/) * (@josephscott) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035355) * When looking at your RSD file (used by blog clients to discover XML-RPC information about your blog) I see this at the bottom: * > > * If you disable WP Super Cache does Windows Live Writer work again? * [Donncha O Caoimh (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donncha/) * (@donncha) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035363) * This has just been fixed. Download and copy this file into your plugins/wp-super- cache/ folder. (Or download the development version of WP Super Cache) * [http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/wp-cache-phase2.php](http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/wp-cache-phase2.php) * [Johanhorak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johanhorak/) * (@johanhorak) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035424) * Will this work on mu wordpress as well? * Thread Starter [heathology](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heathj85/) * (@heathj85) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035458) * i tried disabling wp-super cache and im still getting the same error messages. do i need to uninstall this plugin? * [Joseph Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephscott/) * (@josephscott) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035460) * Did you try the updated version of the wp-cache-phase2.php that Donncha pointed to? * Thread Starter [heathology](https://wordpress.org/support/users/heathj85/) * (@heathj85) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035491) * Yeah, I automatically upgraded to the most recent version and it was still giving me the errors. So I went and disabled the WP Super Cache and two Facebook plugins I had activated, and it seems to work now. Even though there’s a script error on the page now. * [Joseph Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josephscott/) * (@josephscott) * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035496) * If you are referring to the “XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only.” message when viewing the /xmlrpc.php URL in your web browser, that’s normal. * I’d suspect that it was one or some combination of the plugins that was causing the problem. * [kiatlc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kiatlc/) * (@kiatlc) * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035568) * I didn’t use supercache but still face this problem, why? * [Yohan Perera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thevirtualpreacher/) * (@thevirtualpreacher) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035573) * Ok this is what worked for me… * Set the following permissions for xmlrpc.php using a FTP client. If you are using CPanel set permissions using CPanel and that is much better. * Owner (sometimes user) Read: allow, Write: allow, Execute allow * Group: Read: allow, Write: no permission, Other (sometimes world) no permission * Now start reconfiguring WLW. It will go up to some point. However it might ask you again to configure manually, like choosing your blog platform (choose WordPress 2.2+ or a higher number if available) and entering [http://www.castingthenet.net/xmlrpc.php](http://www.castingthenet.net/xmlrpc.php). Do it. and you are done. * [Aushiker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aushiker/) * (@aushiker) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035574) * Hi * I also got this problem in the past few days and found the culprit was a Post to Facebook Plugin which happened to be the last plugin I installed. * Regards Andrew * [thesmudger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thesmudger/) * (@thesmudger) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035578) * The Plug-in causing me grief is entitled Publish to Face Book by David Goldstein. * If this is the same one as previously mentioned, it doesn’t look very good if the plug-in has caused this issue over such a time. If it is similar names syndrome, then is the issue being fed back from face Book, as I think that it’s API system may have changed in some way * Update – although the error message first appeared with Live Writer, it also faults out with Blogjet on my desktop, and wpToGo on my G1 phone. Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘xmlrpc.php and Windows Live Writer Error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=29](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/httpeduchalk-orgblogp29/) * [xmlrpc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xmlrpc/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 11 replies * 8 participants * Last reply from: [thesmudger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thesmudger/) * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xmlrpcphp-and-windows-live-writer-error/#post-1035578) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics