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A problem that has just occurred where I can not install any new plugins - instead after a period of blank screen I get the following error - I've checked the chmod and everything appears okay - any ideas?

John

Trying to open URL package_sidebar_en.xml...
Connection timed out
Notice: Connection timed out in /home/takingtheluk/public_html/serendipity/bundled-libs/PEAR.php on line 848
Connection timed out

I wonder if it might have something to do with your Spartacus configuration. Are both of the first options set to netmirror.org?

unfortunately both settings are as you stated

Could be that your server isn't allowed to make outbound connections. Save this code as a script on your server (say, fwtest.php) and call it from your browser: If you see Google, you're not firewalled. If you get the timeout error, you'll need to talk to your provider about allowing outgoing port 80.

nope - that is not the answer either.
I will admit I'm not very good at this - is there someone who could take a quick look at the files for me. I'm sure it must be a setting or bad upload somewhere as it was working okay.

John

nope - that is not the answer either.
I will admit I'm not very good at this - is there someone who could take a quick look at the files for me. I'm sure it must be a setting or bad upload somewhere as it was working okay.

John

I can look at it, if you email me a URL and authorization data. But I don't know if I can get to it before Monday.

Thank you - sent a pm to you

judebert wrote:Could be that your server isn't allowed to make outbound connections. Save this code as a script on your server (say, fwtest.php) and call it from your browser:

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<?php
echo file_get_contents("http://www.google.com/");
?>

If you see Google, you're not firewalled. If you get the timeout error, you'll need to talk to your provider about allowing outgoing port 80.

I moved to a new webhost 2 weeks ago. Since then Spartacus sees updates and new plugins but cannot install them.
I asked my webhost, but port 80 is not firewalled.
I get google with 'fwtest.php' but no images (red cross (IE7) instead of a picture.

After al long period (+5 min) this error message appears:
The URL "http://netmirror.org/mirror/serendipity ... rev=1.9999 (at IP 212.227.94.132) could not be opened. Maybe the Serendipity or SourceForge.net Server is down - we are sorry, you need to try again later."

Myols account from my old webhost is still valid, en there it worsk instantly. So the SouceForge server isn't down.

Update: my webhost is now making a rule in their firewall for IP 212.227.94.132. Let see if this helps.

Update 2: it did not help.
Anybody any suggestions?

Hi!

Did you try to configure spartacus to use the sourceForge.net mirror? Maybe netmirror.org has problems/outages or so?

Regards,
Garvin

Hi,
yes I did try various combinations. With SouceForge I get:

Trying to open URL serendipity_event_commentsearch.php?rev=1.9999...
The URL http://php-blog.cvs.sourceforge.net/*ch ... rev=1.9999
could not be opened. Maybe the Serendipity or SourceForge.net Server is down - we are sorry, you need to try again later.

Please note that Spartacus is working OK via with old webhost, but not with the new.
Edit I tried Spartacus 2.10 from the nightly builds, no success.

Hi!

Ah, I thought the old s9y version did work on the same hosts.

So am I right that no s9y version works on your new host? This must then mean that your new host is firewalled.

Best regards,
Garvin

I made some modifications to the SVN version of SPARTACUS that make it check for firewalls. If it has trouble connecting to the repository, it tries to connect to Google.

Can you get the SVN version from belios.de?

When you said that the Google page is fetched with the test script, but the images are not, that was significant. I'm not sure why, but it is. The whole page should be fetched, images and all; it sounds like there's some rewriting going on somewhere.