Spartacus not connecting

[el10t]

Hi there again,
I'm having trouble with Spartacus on my site. When I use it to try and install a plugin it crashes out with the error:

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Connection refused
Notice: Connection refused in (path edited out)/blog/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848
Connection refused

Having searched this forum I can confirm that this isn't a firewall problem (the <?php include 'www.google.com';?> test file works fine). My hosts also deny that this is the issue and they say that port 80 isn't blocked for outgoing connections.

Anyone got any other ideas? Thanks.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Which mirror did you configure for the spartacus plugin? You might want to try the netmirror.org one...

Best regards,
Garvin

[el10t]

Thanks Garvin - that fixed it!

Up to a point.

Now I get a series of errors saying the files cannot be written, and then some PHP warnings saying things like:

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Warning: mkdir(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. The script whose uid is 11089 is not allowed to access (path)/blog/plugins/serendipity_event_staticpage owned by uid 10795 in (path)/blog/plugins/serendipity_event_spartacus/serendipity_event_spartacus.php on line 209

Since my host refuses to turn safe_mode off I guess I'm out of luck with Spartacus

Thanks for your excellent support anyway, Garvin.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Spartacus does not properly work in PHPs Safe Mode, unless you change the owner of the directory /plugins to the owner of your PHP process. In most setups you can't do that though, because of those security restrictions.

But downloading the plugins manually from http://spartacus.s9y.org/ is also not that hard, I hope

Best regards,
Garvin