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[hyperorbiter]

am i able to use this software with serendipity?

[garvinhicking]

Yes, you should be able to do that if you install the serendipity "Post via XML-RPC" event plugin (through spartacus / spartacus.s9y.org)

Regards,
Garvin

[hyperorbiter]

when i try to install the plugin, i'm getting the following message:
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Trying to open URL package_event_en.xml...
Fetched 183211 bytes from already existing file on your server. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog/templates_c/package_event_en.xml...


Cannot write to directory /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/. Please check the permissions.
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thoughts?

[garvinhicking]

Yes, change your /plugins/ directory to be writable for your webserver

[hyperorbiter]

hi garvin,

thanks for the advice, though it still didn't work. i'm wondering if the // in the url is an issue?
this is some of the error i get:
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Trying to open URL serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 27951 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php...
Cannot write to file /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/serendipity_xmlrpc.inc.php.
Trying to open URL serendipity_event_xmlrpc.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 2832 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/serendipity_event_xmlrpc.php...
Cannot write to file /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/serendipity_event_xmlrpc.php.
Trying to open URL lang_de.inc.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 208 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/lang_de.inc.php...
Cannot write to file /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/lang_de.inc.php.
Trying to open URL Server.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 21345 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/PEAR/XML/RPC/Server.php...

Warning: mkdir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 1290 is not allowed to access /home/definitive/htdocs/blog/plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc owned by uid 1000 in /home/definitive/htdocs/blog/plugins/serendipity_event_spartacus/serendipity_event_spartacus.php on line 225
Cannot write to file /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/PEAR/XML/RPC.
Trying to open URL Dump.php?rev=1.9999...
Fetched 5186 bytes from the URL above. Saving file as /home/definitive/htdocs/blog//plugins/serendipity_event_xmlrpc/PEAR/XML/RPC/Dump.php...
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and at the very end:
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Please report this bug. This error can happen if a plugin was not properly downloaded (check your plugins directory if the requested plugin was downloaded) or the inclusion of a file failed (permissions?)
Backtrace:
Installing plugin: Array ( [0] => serendipity_event_xmlrpc [1] => [2] => event [3] => 0 [4] => serendipity_event_xmlrpc )
INSERT INTO s9yplugins (name, sort_order, placement, authorid, path) values ('serendipity_event_xmlrpc:79f48f7e1327443c1c3be815333e83b7', 14, 'event', '0', 'serendipity_event_xmlrpc')
No valid path/filename found. Aborting.
Classname serendipity_event_xmlrpc still does not exist. Aborting.
Loading plugin failed painfully. File not found?
No valid path/filename found. Aborting.
Classname serendipity_event_xmlrpc still does not exist. Aborting.

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/definitive/htdocs/blog/include/admin/plugins.inc.php on line 797
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[garvinhicking]

Hi!

You still do not have proper permissions, serendipity cannot write the mentioned files because the webserver is not able to either create that directory or file.

How did you change permissions for /plugins/? And did you maybe revert it? What did you enter in the spartacus plugin for the permission changes? If you configured it wrong, spartacus will lock itself out on the directory....

best regards
Garvin