Akismet and WordPress Stats Connection Issues

  • bittersweet

    (@bittersweet)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    I’m running a couple different instances of WordPress (v.2.5.1 and v2.3). In both deployments I’m not able to connect to Akismet, WordPress.com stats, and the WordPress Automatic update was slowing down my blog. I am also experiencing an issue with FlickrRSS not displaying updated photos posted to my Flickr feed. Its just displaying older photos, even though I’ve added new photos to my flickr feed.

    I’ve enabled and disabled each plugin multiple times with now result.

    From the forums, some people said to check to make sure that I had fsockopen() open on the server, which I do according to my host.

    Here are the errors I’m getting
    WordPress.com Stats Plugin

    Your blog was unable to connect to WordPress.com. Please ask your host for help. (transport error – could not open socket: 0 )

    Akismet

    The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration.

    I’ve checked permissions on wp-content and plugins directories and they seem to be set correct.

    One thing to note, my hosting provider had to change one setting on my server, changing the entry in /etc/resolve.conf on my account since I wasn’t receiving e-mail. They made the change and now I’m getting e-mail.

    From Web host: “There seemed to be a problem with resolution, which is why the mails did not get delivered. I tried delivering the mails in queue, using the Mail Queue Manager in WHM, but it failed to deliver. I changed the name server entry in /etc/resolve.conf, and it seemed to fix the issue. I tried to deliver the mails in the queue, and it did work.”

    I’d appreciate any suggestions on what else I might try. Again, I’m experiencing this on two different installs (and versions) of WordPress installed in different directories on the same VPS server.

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  • miloandrew

    (@miloandrew)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Have you tried something much more simple on the machine, such as a small php file:

    <?php
    $ip = gethostbyname(‘www.wordpress.org’);

    echo $ip;
    ?>

    Does that work? The question is if WordPress is having the issue, or if PHP itself is having the issue.

    At least that should help you narrow it down a bit.

    Good luck! Let us know what happens…

    Cheers,
    Andy

    Thread Starter bittersweet

    (@bittersweet)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for your reply Andy…

    I ran the php script you included and it returned the URL text http://www.wordpress.org on the page (just text).

    Does this tell you anything? Is that what should have happened.

    Forgive me… I’m not a programmer and I know just a little PHP.

    Thanks for your help…

    miloandrew

    (@miloandrew)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    My pleasure!

    Well, unfortunately, the script should have returned an IP address, not the URL.

    Sounds like the WordPress install is probably fine, but for some reason the PHP installation is not able to resolve names.

    Did you install PHP, or did it come on the server? Do you run your own server? You mentioned a VPS – do you get support with that? I’d contact them and let them know that PHP is somehow either installed incorrectly, or does not have the required permissions, etc.

    If you don’t get support with the VPS, I’d go to your hosting providers forum and ask the people there how they have successfully installed PHP to work in that environment.

    Other than that, you could try going to:

    http://us.php.net/support.php

    and look up a few PHP specific groups to get some assistance. I can program in PHP, but don’t know much about its setup, unfortunately.

    Best of luck! When you find a fix, let us know how you fixed it! 🙂

    If I can be of assistance, just update the case.

    Cheers,
    A

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