Title: Fatal Error [Plugin Instapress] Version 1.3.1
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Fatal Error [Plugin Instapress] Version 1.3.1

 *  Resolved [angeal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angeal/)
 * (@angeal)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/)
 * everytime i try to connect with my instagram-account i receive following errormessage:
 * Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Exception’ with message‘
   Unable to Connect to ssl://api.instagram.com:443. Error #164047936: Unable to
   find the socket transport “ssl” – did you forget to enable it when you configured
   PHP?’ in /mnt/webb/61/99/52169199/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/instagram-
   php-api/Zend/Http/Client/Adapter/Socket.php:235 Stack trace: #0 /mnt/webb/61/
   99/52169199/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/instagram-php-api/Zend/
   Http/Client.php(973): Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Socket->connect(‘api.instagram.
   c…’, 443, true) #1 /mnt/webb/61/99/52169199/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/
   instagram-php-api/Instagram.php(123): Zend_Http_Client->request() #2 /mnt/webb/
   61/99/52169199/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/classes/Instagram_XAuth.
   php(24): Instagram->_getHttpClientResponse() #3 /mnt/webb/61/99/52169199/htdocs/
   blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/instagram.php(660): Instagram_XAuth->getAccessToken(”)#
   4 [internal function]: InstagramPlugin->handleOptions(” in /mnt/webb/61/99/52169199/
   htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/instapress/instagram-php-api/Zend/Http/Client/
   Adapter/Socket.php on line 235
 * can someone help me?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instapress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/instapress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [tkrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkrammer/)
 * (@tkrammer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166748)
 * Hi,
    this is because you need to activate OpenSSL on your server to interact 
   with the Instagram API. Please activate OpenSSL or contact your provider: [http://www.nowfromhome.com/activate-openssl-extension-in-php/](http://www.nowfromhome.com/activate-openssl-extension-in-php/)
 * If you need any further help just let me know 🙂
 *  [foochuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foochuck/)
 * (@foochuck)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166821)
 * I’m having the same problem. I can’t find the openssl line in my php.ini to uncomment…
 *  [foochuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foochuck/)
 * (@foochuck)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166822)
 * Nevermind that, I found the solution and now instapress works! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [tkrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkrammer/)
 * (@tkrammer)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166827)
 * Hi,
    could you tell us how you solved that issue? Thanks.
 *  [foochuck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foochuck/)
 * (@foochuck)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166842)
 * [@tkrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tkrammer/),
 * I used this link:
 * [http://www.leoganda.net/how-to-enable-xampp-ssl-socket-transport/](http://www.leoganda.net/how-to-enable-xampp-ssl-socket-transport/)
 * Please note that my php.ini didn’t have the following line in it:
 * ;extension=php_openssl.dll
 * So I added the following to the dynamic extensions section of php.ini:
 * extension=php_openssl.dll
 * And that worked.
 *  [Vincent Garguilo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/garguilo/)
 * (@garguilo)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-plugin-instapress-version-131/#post-2166988)
 * Thank you! I will ask my host (since this host sucks and i see no way to do it
   myself) to turn on OpenSLL. Hopefully that works.

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