connection problems with my wp-installation…

  • Resolved christopher_p

    (@christopher_p)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    actually this is a mix of a few problems. but i feel they are somehow connected to each other. so here it goes…

    1) i can’t auto-update any plugin. everytime i try to auto-upgrade a plugin (disabled or enabled doesnt make a difference) i get the message “Download failed.: Failed to connect to 72.233.56.138: Permission denied”
    2) i can’t retrieve new plugins details (when a new version becomes available). when i try that i get “An Unexpected HTTP Error occured during the API request.”
    3) after the first 2 problems occurred i noticed that the wordpress dev blog as well as the other WP news in the dashboard hadn’t been updated for quite some time

    so that’s it. i don’t even remotely know where to start with this and would appreciate any help!

    thanks in advance!

    cheers
    chris

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  • Thread Starter christopher_p

    (@christopher_p)

    resolved…of course it was a problem with my webserver. they simply don’t allow that kind of connections. but they at least had the wordpress-ip opened. so all is good now ??

    I just installed WP on a site that’s hosted on aplus.net. And I’m having the plugins API issue and the dashboard rss feeds errors you’ve listed above.

    What exactly did you ask/have your webserver do to resolve?

    Thx!

    Thread Starter christopher_p

    (@christopher_p)

    at some point they started blocking external connections from my wordpress-installation (probably global external-site-PHP-disallow!?). but after my support-request they re-enabled the specific wordpress-ip (the one from the error-message). so that the WP-installation can reach the external site again.
    after that plugin-infos, download/update etc worked fine …

    hope that helps!

    Yup…leaving aplus.net

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