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1. sirschuster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I installed wordpress last night and today noticed that about half of all plugins fail to install, even the featured ones. When i use the install option in the admin planel i get such this

   "Installing Plugin: GD Star Rating 1.7.0

   Downloading install package from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gd-star-rating.zip."

   But then it doesn't complete the installation.

   I don't know what kind of info you need of my installation aside of im running php4.5 and mysql5.

   Thanks for the help!

2. Jonathan Dingman
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What happens after it says its downloading?

3. sirschuster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It does absolutely nothing. I appreciate any of your ideas.

4. Jonathan Dingman
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   it could be a web server configuration problem, which then I would recommend just manually downloading the plugin, unzipping it, then uploading it to the wp-content/plugins/ directory.

5. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   If you are installing from wordpress admin panel then make sure that you have set 766 recursive permissions to wp-content directory.

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

6. sirschuster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   1. It is 766. :) At least one thing is right!
   2. Manual uploads are no better, wordpress recognizes it in the plugin menu, but when i click to activate it I get a 500 error. If i attempt to look at it in the editor, there is nothing there.

7. Jonathan Dingman
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Actually, the plugins dir should be 755, not 766.

   Try 755 instead.

   If you're getting 500 errors, I'd talk to your web host, it could be a bad setup.

8. sirschuster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yeah no go.

   As for the 500, that's what I was afraid of... talk about opening a whole can of worms. Are there any common causes for a 500 in this case?

9. sirschuster
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Could it be something with the .htaccess file? Would that cause some plugins to work and not others?

   My website domain takes me to the wordpress folder, which is within another folder. So instead of the domain name's physical path point to "/wordpress" it points to "/foldername/wordpress"

10. Shane G
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi,

    Check with these options too:

    -> Disable all the plugins
    -> Remove all unwanted code from htaccess

    Thanks.

    Shane G.

11. sirschuster
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Didn't work either, so frustrating, but thanks for all the ideas!

12. sirschuster
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    BTW, my comment rating plugin threw out this message in the control settings, does that give any information as to my issues?

    Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /homepages/*/***/htdocs/*****/wordpress/wp-includes/http.php on line 1787

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