Title: Can't activate any plugins
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Can't activate any plugins

 *  Resolved [sebastianbarfurth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebastianbarfurth/)
 * (@sebastianbarfurth)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-any-plugins-2/)
 * Hey,
 * I’m facing a problem. I’ve been searching but there’s been no solution, so I’ll
   post my own topic.
 * I’ve recently installed WordPress, added WooCommerce and a theme from WooThemes,
   worked fine. I installed a few plugin, just from the “Add New” section and searching
   for them.
 * Now today, suddenly, out of nowhere (at least I don’t know why) activating plugins
   doesn’t work anymore.
 * If I download a plugin it downloads, unpacks and bla bla and I hit activate, 
   but it just tells me that the header is broken. (“The plugin does not have a 
   valid header.”)
 * When I go into my FTP client now there’s no folder for the plugin within wp-content/
   plugins, nothing at all. It’s not on installed plugins (not as deactivated either),
   there’s nothing.
 * Now I tried to install that same plugin again, should work, right? No. It said:
   The folder for that plugin already exists, which clearly isn’t the case, it’s
   nowhere. I even tried installing manually after, that was the only way it worked,
   but no files had to be overwritten, I don’t know where WordPress gets that the
   folder already exists.
 * I don’t want to install every plugin manually, that takes up too much time, is
   there any fix for this?

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 *  Thread Starter [sebastianbarfurth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebastianbarfurth/)
 * (@sebastianbarfurth)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-any-plugins-2/#post-3567478)
 * I solved this myself.
 * Just in case anybody faces similar problems: WordPress thought it was funny to
   create a new “root”-structure within the WordPress root, there was my normal 
   structure “www/httpdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins” and what it did is create
   the following path “www/httpdocs/wordpress/www/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins”. 
   Deleting the second set of “www/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins” withing the WordPress
   root fixed the issue.
 *  [spherman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spherman/)
 * (@spherman)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-any-plugins-2/#post-3567734)
 * Thank you. This was really driving me nuts.

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 * [Activating](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activating/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)

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 * Last reply from: [spherman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spherman/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-any-plugins-2/#post-3567734)
 * Status: resolved

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