Area Protect: An internal error occurred while trying to perform this command

I'm running a 1.8 server and I wanted to be able to protect everything I've built, so I downloaded Area Protect and World Guard, which both say they are running fine when I do /plugins . However, whenever I try and do /ap create [name] or /ap create [name] [radius] which I have been doing /ap create House 100 , it says "An internal error occurred while trying to perform this command.
This is my list of plugins:

Plugin List (open) Plugin List (close)

Lockette, WorldEdit, NoSwear, mcMMO, WorldGuard, AreaProtect

Here is the error log in the console when I try it:

Error Log (open) Error Log (close)

27.06 13:03:27 [Multicraft] Skipped 9 lines due to rate limit (30/s)
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) ~[?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) ~[?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) ~[?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) ~[?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sk89q.worldguard.protection.databases.ProtectionDatabaseException
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO ... 15 more
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:44) ~[craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at com.gmail.bleedobsidian.areaprotect.command.APCommandExecutor.onCommand(APCommandExecutor.java:53) ~[?:?]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at com.gmail.bleedobsidian.areaprotect.command.APCommandExecutor.proccessCommand(APCommandExecutor.java:77) ~[?:?]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at com.gmail.bleedobsidian.areaprotect.command.commands.Create.create(Create.java:175) ~[?:?]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sk89q/worldguard/protection/databases/ProtectionDatabaseException
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:540) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.A(MinecraftServer.java:632) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.DedicatedServer.B(DedicatedServer.java:335) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.MinecraftServer.B(MinecraftServer.java:676) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.SystemUtils.a(SourceFile:60) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262) [?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) [?:1.7.0_65]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PlayerConnectionUtils$1.run(SourceFile:13) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PacketPlayInChat.a(SourceFile:9) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PacketPlayInChat.a(SourceFile:37) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PlayerConnection.a(PlayerConnection.java:939) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at net.minecraft.server.v1_8_R3.PlayerConnection.handleCommand(PlayerConnection.java:1079) [craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.craftbukkit.v1_8_R3.CraftServer.dispatchCommand(CraftServer.java:625) ~[craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.command.SimpleCommandMap.dispatch(SimpleCommandMap.java:140) ~[craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO at org.bukkit.command.PluginCommand.execute(PluginCommand.java:46) ~[craftbukkit-1.8.6-20150525a.jar:git-Bukkit-b0e81a4]
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] INFO org.bukkit.command.CommandException: Unhandled exception executing command 'ap' in plugin AreaProtect v4.1
27.06 13:03:19 [Server] ERROR null

Please help me, I wanted to try and make my server public soon, but I know if I don't get this running I will be griefed.

 

@xDTBxBashy2004 You do realise that World Guard had a protects regions itself as a plugin

 

I do know that, Area Protect is a better version of World Guard and requires World Guard to run correctly.

 

@xDTBxBashy2004 I have just seen the plugin and it seems the plugin is outdated

 

Ok, thanks for the info. I think I'll try and work with WorldGuard, and just make constant backups of my world.