Title: post notification
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# post notification

 *  [raggingviper01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raggingviper01/)
 * (@raggingviper01)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-notification/)
 * Hello everyone,
 * I installed a post notification plugin from the wordpress site and I get the 
   following errors. I am a rookie at this and willing to learn but I need help 
   understanding these messages and what I can do to fix the problems.
 * Any help will be appreciated.
 * Error #1) Couldn’t create File: /home/db-int.net/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/
   post_notification/_temp/post_notification.lock
    Please assure the the path is
   writeable. This is an error!
 * Error #2) This version of PHP does not support the function mb_check_encoding.
   You might get some trouble with non-ASCII chars in the subject. Most hosters 
   support this, as it is a sensible php-extension. More information.

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 *  [tame30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tame30/)
 * (@tame30)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-notification/#post-706163)
 * Hi raggingviper01,
 * 🙂 I had the same two problems. I’ll attempt to help as best as I can…
 * Error #1) Couldn’t create File: /home/db-int.net/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/
   post_notification/_temp/post_notification.lock
    Please assure the the path is
   writeable. This is an error!
 * Answer: This is a chmod situation. At least it was for me. I resolved it by creating
   the file “post_notification.lock” through a text editor, uploading it to the 
   directory. In your case it would be: /home/db-int.net/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/
   post_notification/_temp/
 * Once the file is uploaded, chmod to 777. However, there may be some security 
   issues with chmoding the file to this. So you might want to check that out. You
   could also try other chmods to see if they’ll work.
 * Error #2) This version of PHP does not support the function mb_check_encoding.
   You might get some trouble with non-ASCII chars in the subject. Most hosters 
   support this, as it is a sensible php-extension. More information.
 * Answer: For me, this “seemed” to be Apache related. I added several modules onto
   Apache and once I rebuilt it the error disappeared. I’m not sure what module 
   it was that corrected the issue but here are the modules I added on:
 * * Curl
    * Mbstring (this might’ve been the one that fixed it seeing as it has“
   MB” as part of the module name) * Zend Optimizer for PHP * IonCube Loader for
   PHP
 * If indeed it is Apache like it was for me, you need root access (to WHM) to fix
   this problem. If not, contact your hosting and relay the problem to them and 
   they can update Apache for you in order to fix it.

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 * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [tame30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tame30/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-notification/#post-706163)
 * Status: not resolved

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