[resolved]Having issues configuring plugins

[eburrows]

I am having a little problem I hope you guys can help me with. I did a google search and searched the forums but didn't find an answer. I went to spartucus.s9y.org and downloaded a plugin into my plugins directory. I then went into the admin site -> Configure Plugins -> Click Here to install a new sidebar plugin. Unfortunately, this times out with the following error (A similar occurence happens when I go to Manage Styles, etc)..

Trying to open URL package_sidebar_en.xml...
Connection timed out
Notice: Connection timed out in /var/www/html/blog/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848
Connection timed out

Line 848 -- trigger_error($this->getMessage(), $this->level);

So obviously there is an issue with PEAR. This install is on a Fedora Core 5 box, I also installed it on a Gentoo box and don't recall having this problem. Is there an additional PEAR rpm that I need to install or is there something that I need to change in that line of source code? I am sure this is an easy fix I just haven't stumbled across the solution yet.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Evan

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

It seems that you have also installed the Spartacus Plugin; usually you only need this if you want to automatically fetch plugins, not when you manually downloaded a plugin from spartacus.s9y.org.

The error message you get is because of some connection errors, which means either the Spartacus Mirror you configured is offline, or your server does not allow outgoing directions. So either you switch your XML/File mirror in the Spartacus plugin configuration and try again, or contact your provider to ask if your server allows outgoing connections on port 80.

The other way you've already figured out is to download plugins manually from spartacus.s9y.org - in this case you do not need the Spartacus plugin anymore and can remove it. You need to extract the ZIP file you downloaded into your plugins directory, not just place the ZIP file there, though.

I hope this can help you, else please report back

Best regards,
Garvin

[eburrows]

Garvin,

Thanks for the response. I looked through the forums again and noticed a PEAR Request.php file that handles connections. I am an idiot and forgot to change it to account for my http proxy. Adjusting that resolved the problem.

Thanks for the help!
Evan