Spartacus Problem

[bmalek]

I seem to have a Spartacus problem... If I delete Spartacus, I can click on the "Install New Event Plugin" and it works just fine. However, if I install Spartacus, I get the following error when I try to "Install New Event Plugin":

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: ""
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.


I am on a really good server, and it only does this when I have Spartacus installed, so I am confused why this is happening.

Any ideas?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Where does that error message come from? From your Proxy, your Browser, your Server? Serendipity itself does not emit this message.

It might be that your webserver is blocking any outgoing HTTP connections like Spartacus makes. Can you check back with your Provider to see if outgpoing socket connections are allowed?

Best regards,
Garvin

[judebert]

Garvin, we really need to do something to test for and report outgoing socket connection problems. This is at least the third person having this problem. I was trying to help out with a debug version of SPARTACUS, but we were having trouble installing it on two different sites. (I had to put that on hold while we do 1.0.)

I don't know much about PEAR, though. How hard would it be to check for a valid connection and report an error?

[garvinhicking]

Judebert,

connection errors are very hard to circumvent, because they easily through fatal errors or timeouts. I actually don't know a solution to this...

Regards,
Garvin

[bmalek]

Hi!

Where does that error message come from? From your Proxy, your Browser, your Server? Serendipity itself does not emit this message.

It might be that your webserver is blocking any outgoing HTTP connections like Spartacus makes. Can you check back with your Provider to see if outgpoing socket connections are allowed?

Best regards,
Garvin

Sorry have been very busy this week and forgot about this! Anyway, the error is on the browser. How can I check to see if my server (CentOS based) is blocking outgoing HTTP connections?

Edit:
Are the requests going to a specific site and port?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Requests are going to www.netmirror.org usually, on port 80.

You should find a notice of problems somewhere iny our apache or PHP error logs, I think. It really sounds like a timeout issue, where the server is not reachable within your configured timelimit...

Regards,
Garvin

[bmalek]

I finally got the page to give me a different error message by changing the XML and Files location.

Now I got:

Trying to open URL package_event_en.xml...
The URL http://s9y.org/mirror//package_event_en.xml could not be opened. Maybe the Serendipity or SourceForge.net Server is down - we are sorry, you need to try again later.

Of course if I try to go directly to that page, I don't see anything either.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

The s9y.org file mirror is currently not yet available. It is there for future compatibility.

Best regards,
Garvin

[bmalek]

Alright, but when I go to netmirror's site, this is what I get if I just look at the file:

http://netmirror.org/mirror/serendipity ... ent_en.xml

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reference to undeclared namespace prefix: 'requirements'. Error processing resource 'http://netmirror.org/mirror/serendipit...

<requirements:s9yVersion>0.7</requirements:s9yVersion>
---------------------------^


Is that just because I am trying to look at it outside of Serendipity?

I just do not understand why trying to get Spartacus up and running would be so difficult!

[garvinhicking]

bmalek: Exactly. The XML is not meant to be viewed outside of the Serendipity application...

I just do not understand why trying to get Spartacus up and running would be so difficult!

Usually this should not be a problem, but since we are an OpenSource project we are dependant on the free servers given to us. As SF.Net sometimes has outage, we can't account for that, as we are depending on them providing us the server facilities.

Best regards,
Garvin