Title: Can’t activate plugins
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Can’t activate plugins

 *  [zukeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zukeeper/)
 * (@zukeeper)
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugins/)
 * I’m hoping someone can help me here. I installed 1.2 yesterday and I can’t activate
   plugins. When I click activate it just sits there. I’ve even gone into a different
   browser to try there and all I get is a “Cannot find server” page as a result.
   
   The exact same thing happens when I try to edit category names. That I can live
   with, but I some point I’m going to want plugins! I’ve gone so far as to wipe
   everything and reinstall, but it does no good. Thanks for any assistance.

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 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugins/#post-56326)
 * zuKeeper, I installed the 05/28/04 nightly build on my .com server and tested
   the “Dolly” plugin; things worked fine. I then changed the config file to your
   database information and unploaded the same package to your server. The install
   went fine, but the plugins will simply not activate.
    I’ve found a thread here
   regarding a “referrers through a firewall problem” so I killed Zone Alarm on 
   the Win2k box and tried to activate the plugins from there with IE (I gave your
   server an ‘always allow’ option; I initially got a ‘page not found error’ and
   then a ‘you need to have referrers enabled’ message. That was repeatable: the‘
   page not found’ and then the ‘referrer’ message. I locked IE down again and reactivated
   ZoneAlarm and tested out the WP install on my .com; things worked fine there.
   What I’m left with is the impression that this is a server related problem in
   that I can activate the plugins at my place from Firebird under Linux and IE6
   underWin2k and cannot activate them at your place from either system. The question
   for the gang: what is server specific enough in this module to cause her place
   to error out? Thank you!
 *  2843
 * [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugins/#post-56331)
 * My apologies, I thought I was logged in when I posted the above and my profile
   link didn’t post. You can contact me here or as danbowmanatattdotnet (with the
   usual subtractions/ substitutions).
    Thanks again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: 2843
 * Last activity: [22 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-activate-plugins/#post-56331)
 * Status: not resolved

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