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Hi there,

I just installed s9y (1.1.3) and am lovin it~!
I've been trying to install spartacus and it doesnt show up as an "Event Plugins" instead I see an Error! for one of the plugins listed in this category. I'm guessing that Error! plugin is the Spartacus one? meaning that spartacus was already installed with s9y?

I read somewhere that my webserver should not block HTTP requests. Perhaps this is the reason why I'm getting that error plugin. Is there a way to test if my webserver blocks HTTP requests?

TIA!

Hi!

Do you have access to a tool like phpMyAdmin? Could you provide a dump/screenshot of how your 'serendipity_plugins' table looks like? This might help us to see which plugins yields an 'Error!' for you.

I read somewhere that my webserver should not block HTTP requests. Perhaps this is the reason why I'm getting that error plugin. Is there a way to test if my webserver blocks HTTP requests?

You can try to use this simple PHP script:
If that works, then your server is not blocked. If it doesn't work, there might be a slight chance that it works with a different syntax, but in most cases your server will be blocked if it doesn't work.

Best regards,
Garvin

Hi Garvin,

I actually removed the "!Error" plugin because I thought removing it and putting it back would help. Aparently, once I removed it, i can't put it back. When I click
there are no plugins listed at all.

Regardless, I've posted my pics of the plugins page below







Also I tried the php script for testing HTTP requests. I think it works.. kinda because I get the google canada webpage, with the exception of the google logo. See screenshot below

Hi!

If you get a white/empty page on the link "Click here to install an event plugin" that can mean a fatal PHP error happens, which is hidden to you. Can you ask your web provider if they have the PHP error log and can tell you about possible errors?

How did you remove the "Error" plugin? As you can see, the spartacus plugin is not listed in your activated event plugins, so Spartacus isn't available. You would need to pick that plugin from the page you say is empty.

This could have happened because of a faulty FTP upload. Can you re-upload the "plugins" directory from the fresh serendipity release to your host, and make sure that all files are uploaded properly?

Best regards,
Garvin

i searched my browser history and remember the following was the error
followed by a string of hexidecimal numbers i believe. I can't seem to recreate the error (see below) but i did a quick search and found the same error from another user on a different thread
from -> http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?t=54 ... a7d5033f10

with regards to

Can you re-upload the "plugins" directory from the fresh serendipity release to your host, and make sure that all files are uploaded properly?

I have re-uploaded the plugins from a fresh tar folder and performed
making my plugins folder and subfolders all accessible, in hopes of recreating the error Event Plugin entry. Still i am getting the exactly same screens as shown in my pics from previous screen. I should also mention that I had also tried to make my plugins 777 permission prior to removing the error event plugin.

How did you remove the "Error" plugin?

I removed the error entry because it was listed as an "Active" Event Plugin. So I ticked it and clicked the button -> "Remove Ticked Plugins". Then clicked -> "save".

Btw, from my screenshot of the HTTP requests in my previous post mean that my webserver accepts HTTP requests?

Well i can live without spartacus and install the plugins manual. I have tried to do so for the kubrick header and amazon event plugins.

1) Download and unzip the file on my local machine
2) Upload the files into the plugins folder (maintaining the folder structure)
3) Go to admin suite and click -> Click here to install a new event plugin

but i get a empty "event plugins" screen. My webserver is on a university network and web admin he told me that due to security, I can't access the weblogs errors.

I know I have lots of space on my networked drive/webserver so I don't think its a space issue.

Any ideas as to how I can manually add my event plugins? or am i SOL since I can't access the logs...

update: i did a quick check to see if i can install sidebare plugins and they do appear once I've uploaded them. Its only the event plugins that are not showing up once I've uploaded them.

Hi!

Phew. That empty page is really indicating that PHP is throwing a fatal error for you. This can be a multitude of reasons, ranging from memory to access privileges to damaged files up to temporary .php~ files that mistakenly get interpreted.

You really need to check out the Error logs. Telling you that because of security reasons they cannot be read is really strange. In fact it increases security if you find the error that's crashing the PHP process!

Best regards,
Garvin