400 Bad request on installing NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati

Try removing some plugins that are using CURL (Like Facebook, etc).

…there must be some bugs in gallery, some ob_start() not closed.

Thank you for the reply!

Could you tell me how to find CURL-based plugins?

How to close ob_start()

@theOff – @tomskovkajevs has the right idea, except it may be best just to deactivate all plugins then reactivate NextGEN Gallery only … if things work fine then start reactivating your other plugins and check after each to see if/when the issue returns.

That (those?) plugin(s) will likely be the cause of the conflict and the issues you are seeing.

Thanks!

– Cais.

@theOff – how to find plugins: I just use “search in all files” on plugins directory for curl_init. ..although in my case it was in root folder Facebook-related stuff.

@photocrati If deactivated plugins – all works fine.

Solution for me – updating curl options (added COOKIE file and in my case – do not verify SSL) all works fine again.

curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
    curl_setopt ($c, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

    $cookie_file = 'cookie_file_randomname.txt';
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file);
    curl_setopt($c, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file);

@tomskovkajevs – Thanks for sharing!!

– Cais.

Thanks @photocrati and @tomskovkajevs for quick reply!

I deactivated some of the plugins and then activated Nextgen plugin. The dashboard threw “500 Internal Server Error.” I could neither access my dashboard nor the website.

I contacted my web host who restored the dashboard and website.

Then I could access my website but logon to the dashboard threw 400 Bad request error. I deleted Nextgen from the FTP account. Finally got access to my dashboard.

Sorry. But for some time I will not try Nextgen because installation and implementation are time consuming and troublesome.

@theOff – Thanks for the update … and as noted, it may be best to deactivate all plugins first before re-installing/re-activating NextGEN Gallery as this still seems like a conflict with one of your other active plugins.

– Cais.