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Hi all,
I am hoping to get some help and am not sure if I am doing something wrong or have a configuration issue.
I have installed and have running ver 0.8.1 on a Fedora Core 3 box using Apache 2.0.52 and mysql 3.23.58
I initially had SELinux enabled which caused some installation problems, but now have that disabled.
I can sucessfully add, configure and delete Sidebar Plugins.
The problem is,
When I attempt to add an Event Plugin by clicking on the "Click here to install a new event plugin" I am directed to a page that can not be displayed.
What am I doing worng?

This can happen if your server has too little memory available and your Apache coredumps. Check your error logfils, there should be a mention of a coredump.

You can try to bypass this by either using Apache1 and/or raising the memory limit, or by deleting some of the plugins in your plugin folder so that they will not be investigated...

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks Garvin
I was getting "Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted " in the error log.
I increased the memory_limit in the php.ini file from 8 to 16 and that did the trick.

I think it would be good to make this note visible, because I think this is going to be happening to a lot of people, and it will save a lot of head scratching.

Doesn't it cause an alert during the installation if the setting is too low?

I just updated an installation, and there were no alerts I noticed. I'm guessing this is a problem when you have all the plugins installed including the additional group, and maybe not one that happens out of the box. As I'm assuming a lot of people will install the additional plugins, I'm guessing this is going to happen to a lot of people. Clearly the default 8m php configuration is not going to work.

I upped mine to 12, btw.

Serendipity 0.9 has a new feature which only lists 30 plugins per page to surround exactly those problems.

Regards,
Garvin