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Plugin Installation Page empty
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:25 pm
by ma74
Hi
I am new to Serendipity, coming from WordPress. Everything fine so far, seems to be a cool system. The only problem I have is this:
When I want to install further plugins in the Configure Plugins Sections an empty page shows up, with a limited menu on the left (looks like my permissions drop on that point). So what do I have to do, to be able to install plugins.
any hints warmly welcomed
cheers
ma74
Re: Plugin Installation Page empty
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:45 pm
by garvinhicking
Which serendipity version are you using? Can you make a screenshot how the page looks?
What is your PHP setup, does it have display_errors on? It might be that because of large memory consumption or firewall issues the plugin list can not be built, that should show up in your servers errorlog.
A try, you could try to remove the "spartacus" plugin first before installing new plugins to see if it's related to this particular plugin?
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:54 pm
by ma74
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:55 pm
by ma74
screenshot as soon, as i have the system running again, just deleted my users table in the database:(
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:06 pm
by garvinhicking
Oh, PHP 4.1.2 is really outdated! you should upgrade to 4.3.11 at least and as soon as possible, it contains major security fixes and some functions that serendipity plugins require!
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:11 pm
by ma74
sh**
i cant do that, as this is just hosted at a friends server, who is too busy and wont update just because of my blog. maybe i have to move to database to some other server. can this be dangerous, having the php files on one server and the database on another one?
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:16 pm
by ma74
ah. stupid me. that wont make any difference, as its the php and not the database.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:18 pm
by garvinhicking
Yeah, you definitely would need an upgraded PHP. That's the sanest thing to do, you shouldn't be running that nearly 4 years old version for recent applications
Sorry for the trouble!
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:22 pm
by ma74
guess i just have to wait. i asked him, but dont expect any actions to be taken soon. damn it, i want to continue under the same url. hmmm.
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:25 pm
by ma74
anyway. thanks a lot for your help. wouldnt have thought of the php version to be responsible for that
cheers
ma74
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:25 pm
by garvinhicking
I'm quite sure that you should be seeing a PHP Fatal Error in your ErrorLog file, because of a missing function call. I know we bundle the XMLRPC and other PEAR classes that depend on a few PHP 4.3.0 functions. Especially when installing plugins using Spartacus this is required...
Regards,
Garvin
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:26 pm
by ma74
thats exactly what it does. ja. unfortunately.